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Flash Flood Warning 152, NWS El Paso, TX

September 20, 2026El Paso County, Texas

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 20, 2026, 2:13 AM MDT for El Paso County, Texas. 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
Sep 20, 2026, 2:13 AM MDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 2026, 4:15 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County El Paso County, TX

The radar

The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 382 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 00:00Z on 2026-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2508 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2508 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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 20, 12:39 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Sep 20, 12:42 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana3 hr
Sep 19, 11:28 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso3 hr
Sep 19, 11:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso34 min
Sep 20, 12:19 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso26 min
Sep 20, 12:22 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth3 hr
Sep 20, 12:58 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZEl Paso47 min
Sep 20, 1:10 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso2 hr
Sep 20, 1:51 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth3 hr

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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.