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Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 2026, 6:18 PM MDT for Otero 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 15, 2026, 6:18 PM MDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2026, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- 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 00:19 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 00:00Z, 0.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 6:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Luna | 117 min |
| Sep 15, 7:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Sierra | 116 min |
| Sep 16, 6:01 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 119 min |
| Sep 16, 7:09 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 64 min |
| Sep 16, 3:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Sep 15, 6:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 117 min |
| Sep 15, 6:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 4:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Hudspeth | 34 min |
| Sep 16, 5:39 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 5:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 29 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.