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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS El Paso, TX

June 29, 2025Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2025, 1:43 PM MDT for Otero County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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 29, 2025, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2025, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 341 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2025-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 462 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2025-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 6:14 PM MDTDust Storm WarningEPZGrant, Hidalgo61 min
Jun 28, 6:48 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZHidalgo72 min
Jun 28, 6:57 PM MDTDust Storm WarningEPZHidalgo63 min
Jun 28, 7:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana25 min
Jun 29, 11:26 AM MDTFlood WatchEPZOtero37 hr
Jun 29, 1:47 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant, Sierra118 min
Jun 29, 1:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero115 min
Jun 29, 1:52 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero113 min
Jun 29, 2:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZOtero2 hr
Jun 29, 3:26 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryEPZGrant, Hidalgo, Luna3 hr
Jun 29, 5:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZDoña Ana13 min
Jun 29, 5:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZLuna26 min
Jun 29, 5:29 PM MDTDust Storm WarningEPZHidalgo2 hr
Jun 29, 5:34 PM MDTDust Storm WarningEPZHidalgo86 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.