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Flash Flood Warning 153, NWS El Paso, TX

September 22, 2026Doña Ana County, Otero County, New Mexico

NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 2026, 2:12 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, 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
Sep 22, 2026, 2:12 PM MDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 22, 2026, 4:15 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS El Paso, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Doña Ana County, NM, Otero County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 12:00Z on 2026-09-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 648 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2026-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 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
648 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 22, 1:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementEPZ43 min
Sep 22, 1:15 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZOtero90 min
Sep 22, 1:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana95 min
Sep 22, 2:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana2 hr
Sep 22, 3:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZSierra117 min
Sep 22, 5:35 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana, Otero85 min
Sep 22, 5:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZDoña Ana90 min
Sep 21, 6:07 PM MDTFlood WatchEPZHudspeth27 hr
Sep 22, 1:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso2 hr
Sep 22, 4:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth84 min
Sep 22, 5:29 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEPZEl Paso, Hudspeth51 min

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.