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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS El Paso, TX

July 31, 2025Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2025, 8:38 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 112 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 31, 2025, 8:38 PM MDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2025, 10:30 PM MDT
In force: 112 min
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Doña Ana County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 301 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: 579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 31, 5:26 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 5:26 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 3:43 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:19 PM MDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:32 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
701 PM MDT Thu Jul 31 2025

NMZ411-010130-
Southern Dona Ana County/Mesilla Valley NM-
701 PM MDT Thu Jul 31 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWESTERN DONA ANA COUNTY
THROUGH 730 PM MDT...

At 700 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Afton. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Afton and Aden Crater.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3193 10701 3196 10720 3214 10718 3209 10692
TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 194DEG 1KT 3202 10710

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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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 31, 6:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jul 31, 6:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ		28 min
Jul 31, 6:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana, Luna	2 hr
Jul 31, 6:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jul 31, 7:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	29 min
Jul 31, 7:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	28 min
Jul 31, 7:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	114 min
Jul 31, 7:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Luna	87 min
Jul 31, 7:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	2 hr
Jul 31, 7:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	115 min
Jul 31, 8:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Luna	115 min
Jul 31, 8:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	3 hr
Jul 31, 9:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	2 hr
Jul 31, 9:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	56 min
Jul 31, 9:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	114 min
Aug 1, 1:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	112 min
Aug 1, 2:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Aug 1, 5:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Sierra	3 hr

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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.