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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS El Paso, TX

June 26, 2025Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2025, 12:01 PM MDT for Grant 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: Jun 26, 2025, 12:01 PM MDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2025, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS El Paso, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Grant County, NM

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 576 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1166 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 Jun 25, 5:30 PM MDT, 18 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 5:30 PM MDT, 18 hours 31 minutes before

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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
Jun 25, 6:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	117 min
Jun 25, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	27 min
Jun 25, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	33 min
Jun 25, 7:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Luna	30 min
Jun 25, 7:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Luna	34 min
Jun 25, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	30 min
Jun 25, 7:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jun 25, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Otero	39 min
Jun 25, 7:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Luna	3 hr
Jun 25, 10:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Sierra	2 hr
Jun 26, 12:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jun 26, 12:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jun 26, 1:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Otero	2 hr
Jun 26, 1:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EPZ	Otero	3 hr
Jun 26, 1:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Grant	24 min
Jun 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Otero	113 min
Jun 26, 2:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jun 26, 2:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Otero	34 min
Jun 26, 2:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	113 min
Jun 26, 3:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Grant	2 hr
Jun 26, 3:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	112 min
Jun 26, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Sierra	28 min
Jun 26, 4:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	31 min
Jun 26, 4:26 PM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	EPZ	Hidalgo	64 min
Jun 26, 4:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EPZ	Doña Ana	113 min
Jun 26, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	Doña Ana	31 min
Jun 26, 5:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	EPZ	El Paso	31 min

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.