1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 6, 2:09 AM MST, 11 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 309 AM MDT THU JUL 6 2006 .SYNOPSIS... EASTERLY WINDS WILL TRANSPORT MOIST UNSTABLE AIR INTO NEW MEXICO AND WESTERN TEXAS THROUGH SATURDAY WHILE WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE INTO THE REGION. AS A RESULT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECASTED WITH HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE OVER A FEW AREAS. && .DISCUSSION... UPPER HIGH NOW LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO WITH ASSOCIATED RIDGE AXIS ALIGNING ON A NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST AXIS. RESULTANT CIRCULATION INDUCING A DEEP SOUTHEAST FLOW ACROSS THE CWA WHICH WILL PERSIST INTO SATURDAY. LOW LEVEL FLOW DOMINATED BY THERMAL TROUGH OVER WESTERN ARIZONA AND HIGH PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL ROCKIES AND EASTERN TEXAS WHICH WILL COMBINE TO KEEP BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS MAINLY FROM THE EAST. OVERALL PATTERN WILL SUSTAIN DEEP MOISTURE INFLOW WITH PRECIPITABLE WATER AMOUNTS EXCEEDING 1.3 INCHES MOST AREAS AND POSSIBLY REACHING 1.5 OVER SOUTHERN LOWLANDS. AIR MASS SHOULD ALSO BE UNSTABLE WITH CAPES FROM 700 TO 1300 J/KG DURING THE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. THUS POTENTIAL FOR HEAVIER RAINS CONTINUES AS WEAK STEERING FLOW AND RELATIVELY STRONGER LOW LEVEL WINDS INDICATE POTENTIAL FOR SLOW MOVING BACK BUILDING CELLS. MAIN QUESTION REMAINS TRIGGER/LIFTING MECHANISMS. FOR TODAY/TONIGHT EXPECT WEAK WAVES TO MOVE INTO THE CWA FROM THE SOUTH AS SUGGESTED BY MODELS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGES. LATEST LONGER RANGE GFS SHIFTS RIDGE AXIS JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER BY SUNDAY WITH FLOW ALOFT BECOMING MORE ZONAL. THUS WARMER DRIER AIR ALOFT SHOULD BRING DECREASED CHANCES OF RAIN EARLY NEXT WEEK. HOWEVER UNLIKE PREVIOUS RUNS, LATEST GFS ALSO MOVES WEAK UPPER WAVES ACROSS THE CWA NEXT WEEK SUGGESTING CONVECTION MAY NOT BE AS DIMINISHED AS PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES, LATER OUTLOOKS WILL REQUIRE HIGHER CHANCES OF RAIN NEXT WEEK. && .AVIATION... SCATTERED AREAS OF MVFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES...LOWERING TO IFR IN A FEW LOCATIONS...IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... EL PASO 92 69 90 70 92 / 50 50 40 40 30 SIERRA BLANCA TX 88 63 86 64 91 / 40 40 30 40 30 LAS CRUCES 90 66 89 67 92 / 50 50 40 40 30 ALAMOGORDO 90 64 89 66 92 / 50 50 40 40 30 CLOUDCROFT 64 45 65 47 67 / 50 50 50 50 40 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES 89 65 88 67 91 / 50 50 40 40 30 SILVER CITY 80 59 80 60 82 / 50 50 40 40 30 DEMING 90 65 89 67 91 / 50 50 40 40 30 LORDSBURG 90 65 90 67 90 / 50 50 40 40 30 && .EPZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... 05 ROGASH
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:19 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Roads were flooded in far northeastern El Paso County from Hueco Tanks State Park to the Montana Vista area.
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