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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS El Paso, TX

June 26, 2024Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2024, 12:31 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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
Jun 26, 2024, 12:31 PM MDT (18:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
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 18:31 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2024-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2024-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 26, 11:04 AM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 11:04 AM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 11:26 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero2 hr
Jun 26, 11:47 AM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatEPZOtero6 hr
Jun 26, 11:50 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero115 min
Jun 26, 11:54 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero2 hr
Jun 26, 3:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero117 min
Jun 26, 4:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana32 min
Jun 26, 5:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero14 min
Jun 26, 5:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero104 min
Jun 26, 3:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZHudspeth29 min
Jun 26, 4:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 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.