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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS El Paso, TX

July 29, 2025Luna County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2025, 3:55 AM MDT for Luna 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 29, 2025, 3:55 AM MDT (09:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2025, 6:53 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Luna County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 105 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2025-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 722 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2025-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 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 Jul 28, 10:38 PM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 10:38 PM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 6:04 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatEPZOtero86 min
Jul 28, 6:11 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna, Sierra3 hr
Jul 28, 6:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra29 min
Jul 28, 6:25 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZHidalgo2 hr
Jul 28, 6:29 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra2 hr
Jul 28, 6:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Luna117 min
Jul 28, 6:36 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra114 min
Jul 28, 6:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero3 hr
Jul 28, 6:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra116 min
Jul 28, 7:28 PM MDTDust Storm WarningEPZHidalgo32 min
Jul 28, 7:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZLuna87 min
Jul 28, 8:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero117 min
Jul 28, 8:22 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Jul 28, 8:35 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Sierra22 min
Jul 28, 8:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZOtero27 min
Jul 28, 8:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana, Sierra3 hr
Jul 28, 9:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana2 hr
Jul 28, 9:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra23 min
Jul 28, 10:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana, Sierra113 min
Jul 28, 10:17 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Jul 28, 10:29 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana2 hr
Jul 28, 10:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra117 min
Jul 28, 10:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana113 min
Jul 29, 6:53 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningEPZLuna2 hr
Jul 29, 9:16 AM MDTFlood WatchEPZDoña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra17 hr
Jul 28, 7:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Jul 29, 12:04 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr
Jul 29, 5:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth118 min

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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.