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Flash Flood Warning 172, NWS El Paso, TX

September 16, 2025Doña Ana County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 2025, 10:30 PM MDT for Doña Ana 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
Sep 16, 2025, 10:30 PM MDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 17, 2025, 1:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Emergency
Flash flood emergency
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 04:31 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 383 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-09-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 54 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, Tuscon, AZ at 00:00Z on 2025-09-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZSierra26 min
Sep 16, 6:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant116 min
Sep 16, 8:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Otero2 hr
Sep 16, 9:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZDoña Ana, Otero2 hr
Sep 17, 2:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero3 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.