Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2025
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2025, 7:46 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was in force for 89 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
- Jul 18, 2025, 7:46 PM MDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2025, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 89 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 01:49 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
Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 18, 5:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 5:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 97 min |
| Jul 18, 7:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 113 min |
| Jul 18, 7:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 3:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 115 min |
| Jul 19, 5:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 114 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2025Every flash flood warning in 2025
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.