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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS El Paso, TX

July 20, 2024Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 2024, 1:57 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 2024, 1:57 PM MDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2024, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Emergency: Flash flood emergency
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 19, 5:15 PM MDT, 20 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 5:15 PM MDT, 20 hours 42 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 10:59 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 20, 12:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 20, 12:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr
Jul 20, 1:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Grant	51 min
Jul 20, 2:10 PM MDT	Flood Watch	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra	40 hr
Jul 20, 2:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jul 20, 2:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 20, 2:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	3 hr
Jul 20, 3:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 20, 3:16 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	119 min
Jul 20, 5:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	3 hr
Jul 20, 5:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 20, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	27 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.