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Flash Flood Warning 130, NWS El Paso, TX

September 14, 2026Grant County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 2026, 1:35 AM 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
Sep 14, 2026, 1:35 AM MDT (07:35 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 2026, 4:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
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 07:35 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2026-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1531 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2026-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
1531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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
Sep 14, 12:58 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant2 hr
Sep 14, 2:15 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant2 hr
Sep 14, 10:14 AM MDTFlood WatchEPZGrant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra68 hr
Sep 14, 3:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
Sep 14, 5:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Sep 14, 5:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHidalgo3 hr
Sep 14, 5:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra3 hr
Sep 14, 5:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningEPZSierra3 hr
Sep 14, 5:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZGrant3 hr
Sep 13, 10:05 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso115 min
Sep 14, 2:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth2 hr
Sep 14, 4:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZHudspeth3 hr

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.