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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS El Paso, TX

July 21, 2024Doña Ana County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2024, 10:22 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 113 min. 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 21, 2024, 10:22 PM MDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2024, 12:15 AM MDT
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 370 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: 415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 8:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 8:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 9:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 9:57 PM MDT, 25 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 21, 8:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	26 min
Jul 21, 8:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	24 min
Jul 21, 9:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	116 min
Jul 21, 9:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	117 min
Jul 21, 9:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Sierra	110 min
Jul 21, 10:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	36 min
Jul 21, 10:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	2 hr
Jul 22, 2:34 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 22, 6:41 AM MDT	Flood Watch	EPZ	Otero	15 hr
Jul 22, 12:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 22, 1:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	117 min
Jul 22, 5:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jul 22, 3:50 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	3 hr
Jul 22, 10:30 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso, Hudspeth	3 hr

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.