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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2025, 12:29 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
- Jul 17, 2025, 12:29 PM MDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2025, 2:30 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 18:29 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Jul 17, 10:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 10:59 AM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 7:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 8:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 116 min |
| Jul 17, 2:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 113 min |
| Jul 17, 3:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | 27 min | |
| Jul 17, 3:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 119 min |
| Jul 17, 5:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 2:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 4:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 67 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.