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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS El Paso, TX

August 30, 2024Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2024, 2:43 PM MDT for Grant 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: Aug 30, 2024, 2:43 PM MDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2024, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
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 20:46 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 Aug 30, 2:00 PM MDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:00 PM MDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 30, 1:52 PM MDT, 51 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
Aug 29, 6:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	25 min
Aug 30, 3:16 AM MDT	Flood Watch	EPZ	Otero	17 hr
Aug 30, 1:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 30, 1:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	23 min
Aug 30, 2:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	3 hr
Aug 30, 2:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.