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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS El Paso, TX

July 28, 2024Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2024, 3:56 PM MDT for Grant County, Sierra County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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 28, 2024, 3:56 PM MDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2024, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Grant County, NM, Sierra County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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.

NWS El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 28, 2:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:25 PM MDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service El Paso TX/Santa Teresa NM
125 PM MDT Sun Jul 28 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0659 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     1 SE Lordsburg          32.34N 108.69W
07/27/2024  M63 MPH          Hidalgo            NM   ASOS

            Lordsburg Municipal Airport reported a wind
            gust of 63 mph.

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LPR

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:28 PM MDT, 28 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 27, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	33 min
Jul 27, 6:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	119 min
Jul 27, 6:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	24 min
Jul 27, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	30 min
Jul 28, 1:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jul 28, 2:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	113 min
Jul 28, 2:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jul 28, 3:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	118 min
Jul 28, 3:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	32 min
Jul 28, 3:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	2 hr
Jul 28, 4:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	2 hr
Jul 28, 5:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 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.