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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS El Paso, TX
NWS El Paso, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 2026, 8:04 PM MDT for Doña Ana County, New Mexico; El Paso County, Texas. It was in force for 86 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, 2026, 8:04 PM MDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2026, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS El Paso, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Doña Ana County, NM, El Paso County, TX
The radar
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 409 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
- 1606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2009 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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, 11:21 AM MDT, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 11:21 AM MDT, 8 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS El Paso, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 18, 6:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant, Luna | 113 min |
| Jul 18, 6:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 6:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 8:47 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 58 min |
| Jul 18, 9:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 110 min |
| Jul 19, 1:15 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 12:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:08 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 112 min |
| Jul 19, 1:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 115 min |
| Jul 19, 2:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 2:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 3:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 117 min |
| Jul 19, 3:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Otero | 116 min |
| Jul 19, 3:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 113 min |
| Jul 19, 3:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | Doña Ana | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 4:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 117 min |
| Jul 19, 4:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Grant | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 4:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:39 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Luna | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | EPZ | El Paso | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 10:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 3:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 3:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 114 min |
| Jul 19, 4:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | Hudspeth | 112 min |
| Jul 19, 5:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EPZ | El Paso, Hudspeth | 115 min |
| Jul 19, 5:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hudspeth | 118 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.