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Alerts in area

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  1. Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696Offices KABQ, KEPZIn effect · Until
  2. Flood WatchUpcoming · Starts

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  • Severe Thunderstorm Watch 1
  • Flood Watch 1

NWS’s polygons as issued, or the zones a zone-issued alert names; SPC’s watches by their counties. Checked . Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC.

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Alert outlines: NOAA/NWS; cell points/observed segments: IEM/NEXRAD. A warning polygon is not a tornado footprint.

Lightning activity — GOES GLM

Total lightning, including in-cloud activity. Not ground-strike locations or a safe-to-go-outside signal.

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Cached lightning source details and text readings

Snow analysis — NOHRSC

Source-rendered snow depth and snow water equivalent for the lower 48. History changes this snow picture only; warnings and radar keep their own clocks.

Stored snow depth · footprint valid 2026-10-23 12:00:00 UTC, picture retrieved 2026-10-23 18:38:05.678 UTC.

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NOHRSC snow analysis for the lower 48; see the adjacent source legend and time qualification
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NOHRSC footprint times are metadata; pixel analysis time is not independently verified. Snow-depth pixels have previously differed from the footprint time. This is modeled/assimilated snow analysis, not a measurement at a place. Unshaded and no-data areas do not establish zero snow.

Snow pictures, retained history and source provenance

Change time or forecast product

Recorded weather · gaps are marked. Coverage begins with recording activation.

Live sources keep independent clocks.

Replay coverage and interpretation

Rolling target: 24 hours; cells: six hours. Radar: NOAA MRMS national overview, 8-minute tolerance. Satellite: original GOES GeoColor day/night picture, hourly sampling, 75-minute tolerance. No interpolation or latest-image fallback. Warning and source checks retain their own clocks. “Recorded by” is collector acquisition evidence, not exact browser publication history.

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    Station and river observations (164)

    Surface source current; observed water-level source current. Each reading keeps its own time. Map markers show at most 500 stations and 500 gauges; the complete source directory is paginated.

    Circle: surface station; square: water-level gauge. Filled: current reading and source; hollow: stale, unconfirmed or missing observation. Marker color is not a hazard category. Enable “Stations and gauges” in Layers to inspect them on the map.

    Showing 100 of 164 listed sources. All surface stations and retained trends · All supported gauges and forecasts

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    Offices KABQ, KEPZ

    Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696 · Current published alert

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    Office
    NOAA/SPC
    Full official bulletin

    No bulletin text retained with this source. Open the agency record.

    No official detail link supplied.

    Official geographic context; not a storm footprint.

    Recent changes

    No retained alert changes in this monitoring area. This is not proof that nothing changed.

    Source collection activity (30)
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • ero discussion · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected
    • day3 intensity · source revision · collected
    • office hwo · source revision · collected
    • day3 probability · source revision · collected
    • day3 narrative · source revision · collected
    • office afd · source revision · collected
    • day3 categorical · source revision · collected
    • radar alerts · source revision · collected

    A new collection or source revision does not establish a consequential weather change.

    Recording coverage and limits
    • warnings: retained from 2026-10-22T19:43:34.656Z through 2026-10-23T19:43:03.666Z
    • outlooks: retained from 2026-10-22T19:43:34.656Z through 2026-10-23T19:40:05.656Z
    • hydro: retained from 2026-10-22T19:43:34.656Z through 2026-10-23T19:35:05.543Z
    • analysis: retained from 2026-10-22T19:43:34.656Z through 2026-10-23T19:30:06.673Z
    • winter: retained from 2026-10-22T19:43:34.656Z through 2026-10-23T19:38:05.221Z

    Source changes and imagery have separate recording coverage. Open Replay for retained weather frames.

    Checks every minute; each layer keeps its own time.

    About this monitored event

    This event, as this site’s operators set it up

    Kind
    Severe weather
    Window
    Open: no start or end was set
    Updated

    Analysis

    Area, source times and interpretation

    Current cached context, independently dated. Regional reference: TX; a reference within a wider monitoring area does not replace the complete warning geography. This section remains separate from the historical replay cursor and official cyclone forecast. Use Forecast to pin a retained model package.

    Soundings: what weather balloons measured

    SPC’s skew-T diagram and hodograph of the sounding at Brownsville, TX (BRO), 18Z. Its levels are in the table below.
    Observed Sounding at Brownsville, TX (BRO), for (1 h 43 min ago). SPC’s graphic; the values in its panels (CAPE, shear, the indices) are SPC’s computations from these levels. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    A balloon launched about an hour before the time named, measuring as it rose and drifted with the wind: the atmosphere above one place, at one time. Model soundings, which are forecasts, are not shown here.

    The levels this sounding was drawn from (61)
    Brownsville, TX (BRO): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
    PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
    1018 mb7 m28.617.6080° 5 kt
    1001 mb159 m25.416.4—
    1000 mb168 m25.416.4105° 5 kt
    984 mb305 m24.116.2095° 6 kt
    950 mb610 m21.115.7090° 10 kt
    925 mb846 m18.815.3090° 9 kt
    886 mb1215 m15.214.6—
    876 mb1312 m15.09.0—
    855 mb1517 m15.2-6.8—
    850 mb1567 m16.0-21.0105° 6 kt
    824 mb1829 m15.3-30.8080° 4 kt
    814 mb1933 m14.8-32.2—
    801 mb2069 m14.2-22.8—
    791 mb2174 m13.41.4—
    772 mb2378 m11.8-0.2—
    745 mb2675 m9.21.2—
    734 mb2798 m9.0-5.0—
    719 mb2968 m7.4-5.6—
    700 mb3189 m7.4-8.6345° 6 kt
    686 mb3353 m6.41.1295° 11 kt
    675 mb3488 m5.6-2.4—
    663 mb3634 m4.8-9.2—
    648 mb3820 m5.0-24.0—
    621 mb4168 m6.2-36.8—
    607 mb4354 m5.6-19.4—
    597 mb4490 m5.0-20.0—
    569 mb4877 m2.8-23.8000° 9 kt
    556 mb5066 m1.4-25.6—
    537 mb5345 m-0.9-26.9—
    524 mb5540 m-2.1-30.1—
    503 mb5863 m-4.1-31.1—
    500 mb5910 m-4.3-28.3025° 9 kt
    488 mb6096 m-5.6-24.1035° 8 kt
    463 mb6512 m-8.9-31.9—
    452 mb6699 m-10.5-29.5—
    441 mb6888 m-11.7-21.7—
    431 mb7064 m-12.9-25.9—
    407 mb7499 m-16.1-33.1—
    400 mb7630 m-16.9-35.9020° 15 kt
    389 mb7838 m-18.5-31.5—
    369 mb8230 m-21.8-35.2015° 10 kt
    344 mb8739 m-26.1-40.1—
    325 mb9144 m-29.7-41.6345° 11 kt
    311 mb9449 m-32.4-42.7350° 14 kt
    300 mb9710 m-34.7-43.7355° 13 kt
    285 mb10058 m-37.0-55.8010° 10 kt
    268 mb10490 m-40.3-57.3—
    250 mb10960 m-44.7-56.7305° 11 kt
    239 mb11258 m-47.5-57.5—
    228 mb11582 m-49.0-65.8305° 8 kt
    217 mb11891 m-49.3-72.3—
    201 mb12388 m-52.5-73.5—
    200 mb12420 m-52.5-73.5260° 38 kt
    185 mb12922 m-54.5-75.5—
    171 mb13411 m-57.7-77.5280° 38 kt
    161 mb13801 m-59.5-79.5—
    150 mb14240 m-62.9-79.9260° 37 kt
    136 mb14835 m-67.3-82.3—
    121 mb15532 m-70.3-87.3—
    106 mb16310 m-72.7-86.7—
    100 mb16650 m-74.5-86.5315° 9 kt
    Every station with a sounding (77)

    SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

    Spotlight: SPC Day 1 outlook

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    SPC Day 1 outlook

    • General Thunderstorms Risk
    • Marginal Risk
    • Slight Risk highest in this area

    SPC’s Day 1 categorical outlook, valid to , issued . SPC’s categories, as drawn. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    Watches

    • Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696 until

    SPC’s watches, by number, matched by the counties they list. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    Mesoscale discussions

    No mesoscale discussion reaches this area.

    SPC’s mesoscale discussions whose outline reaches the area. Data: NOAA/SPC.

    Storm ingredients

    SPC’s hourly mesoanalysis, observed soundings and model guidance for the area, on the Analysis tab with its own clocks.

    Open the Analysis tab

    Drawn by the Analysis tab’s own renderer. Data: NOAA/SPC, NOAA/NCEP.

    Flash-flood risk, Day 1

    • Marginal
    • Marginal
    • Slight

    WPC’s excessive rainfall outlook, to , issued : a chance of flash flooding, in four categories. Data: NOAA/WPC.

    River gauges in flood

    No river, coastal or lake gauge in this area is in flood, observed or forecast; 3 gauges at action stage.

    NWS’s gauges at flood stage or above in the area, worst first, each with its forecast hydrograph on Rain & rivers. Data: NOAA/NWPS.

    Rain expected and rain that fell

    WPC’s rain forecast and MRMS’s radar estimate of the rain that fell, on the Briefing’s map for the area.

    Open Rain & rivers

    Data: NOAA/WPC, NOAA/NSSL MRMS.

    Radar

    NOAA’s radar for the area, loaded by your browser as on the Radar page.

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    Live tiles; the radar keeps no last-good copy.

    What changed, last 60 minutes

    1. Mesoscale Discussion 2404 no longer in force: Much of New Mexico and Portions of Far West Texas
    2. Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696 issued by NOAA/SPC: Offices KABQ, KEPZ

    The products’ own words and times, and what is no longer in force since the last read. Never written by AI.

    Monitoring area details
    Area
    Texas (NWS states: TX)
    Hazards
    Tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, river flood, areal flood, coastal flood and other warnings, watches and advisories, and the forecasts for them
    Window
    In force now, with the next days of SPC’s and WPC’s products
    Made by
    This site’s operators, in its admin console. Nothing about a reader is stored. Watch another area

    An area the operators chose, not a storm’s footprint: everything here is in force in this area, never “from this event”.

    Published alerts in this area 2

    1. Severe Thunderstorm Watch11 new · until 24 Oct 03:00Z
    2. Flood Watch11 not yet in effect · until 25 Oct 12:00Z
    Every alert in this area, most urgent first
    1. Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696Offices KABQ, KEPZuntil · NOAA/SPC
    2. Flood WatchOtero Mesa; West Central Tularosa Basin/White Sands; East Central Tularosa Basin/Alamogordo; Southeast Tularosa Basin; Western El Paso County; Eastern/Central El Paso County; Northern Hudspeth Highlands/Hueco Mountains; Salt Basin; Southern Hudspeth Highlands; Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/Western Hudspeth Counties; Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth CountyFrom · until · NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM

    Most urgent first, by the Briefing’s ranking. Checked .

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    WatchesTest123 · 2 alerts
    Severe Thunderstorm Watch 696Offices KABQ, KEPZUntil Flood WatchStarts
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