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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS El Paso, TX

July 28, 2024Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2024, 6:21 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 114 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 28, 2024, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2024, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Grant County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5:40 PM MDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 5:40 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 56 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.

&&

LPR

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 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 28, 6:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	119 min
Jul 29, 12:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jul 29, 12:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jul 29, 2:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	115 min
Jul 29, 3:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Hidalgo	113 min
Jul 29, 4:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	115 min
Jul 29, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Hidalgo	23 min
Jul 29, 5:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	118 min
Jul 29, 5:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	119 min
Jul 29, 5:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Hidalgo	112 min
Jul 29, 5:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	31 min
Jul 28, 7:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	2 hr
Jul 28, 7:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	El Paso	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.