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Flash Flood Warning 186, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 2025, 2:11 AM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 94 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
- Sep 28, 2025, 2:11 AM MDT (08:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2025, 3:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- 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 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 Sep 27, 10:28 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 27, 10:28 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 9:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Grant | 24 min |
| Sep 28, 12:36 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Otero | 20 hr |
| Sep 28, 1:47 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 24 min |
| Sep 28, 2:24 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 36 min |
| Sep 28, 1:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 60 min |
| Sep 28, 1:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 2:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hidalgo | 26 min |
| Sep 28, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hidalgo, Luna | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 2:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Luna | 24 min |
| Sep 28, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Luna | 35 min |
| Sep 28, 2:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 63 min | |
| Sep 28, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Luna | 16 min |
| Sep 28, 3:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 4 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 47 min |
| Sep 28, 3:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 30 min |
| Sep 28, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 52 min |
| Sep 28, 3:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 19 min |
| Sep 28, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 41 min |
| Sep 28, 4:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 25 min |
| Sep 28, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 50 min |
| Sep 28, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Otero | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 51 min |
| Sep 28, 5:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 112 min |
| Sep 28, 1:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 54 min |
| Sep 28, 1:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 119 min |
| Sep 28, 1:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 22 min |
| Sep 28, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 43 min |
| Sep 28, 2:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 28 min |
| Sep 28, 2:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 110 min |
| Sep 28, 2:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 29 min |
| Sep 28, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 41 min |
| Sep 28, 3:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 28 min |
| Sep 28, 3:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 39 min |
| Sep 28, 3:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 118 min |
| Sep 28, 4:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | El Paso | 5 hr |
| Sep 28, 5:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 29 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.