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Flash Flood Warning 155, NWS El Paso, TX

August 29, 2025El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2025, 7:01 PM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. 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 29, 2025, 7:01 PM MDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2025, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 29, 5:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 5:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 29, 6:49 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service El Paso TX
649 PM MDT Fri Aug 29 2025

TXZ419-420-423-300115-
Eastern/Central El Paso County TX-
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties TX-
Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains TX-
649 PM MDT Fri Aug 29 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN EL PASO COUNTY
THROUGH 715 PM MDT...

At 649 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Indian Cliffs Ranch. This thunderstorm was nearly stationary.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch 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...
Fabens, Tornillo, and Indian Cliffs Ranch.

This includes Interstate 10 in Texas between mile markers 45 and 56.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3147 10600 3145 10604 3156 10621 3167 10600
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 150DEG 1KT 3154 10604

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

DENNHARDT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 6:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Aug 30, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	23 min
Aug 30, 2:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 30, 3:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant, Luna	3 hr
Aug 30, 3:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Aug 30, 5:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Aug 29, 6:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	26 min
Aug 29, 7:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	El Paso	2 hr
Aug 30, 1:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	El Paso	115 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2025 Every flash flood warning in 2025

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.