Thomas Bird, National Weather Service El Paso

Brandy Ruiz3min

Brandy Ruiz00:01

Test, test, okay.

Speaker 100:29

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Brandy Ruiz01:24

Hi. My name is Brandy Ruiz. I'm a reporter with El Paso matters. I believe my colleague, Diego just called, but I wanted to ask a question. I'm trying to fact check like flood versus flash floods in El Paso. Kind of similar. I don't know if you were the person you spoke to, but kind of similar

Speaker 101:41

to no that was actually in the middle of putting a warning out. So he put that hold real quick, and he just walked back in the room. Oh yes, of course.

Unknown02:01

Hello. Is it Tom,

Brandy Ruiz02:02

hi. Tom, hi. Can you hear me? Hello.

Unknown02:06

I can hear you.

Brandy Ruiz02:09

I was calling. My name is Brandy. My name is Brandy. Ruiz. I'm a reporter with El Paso matters, and I believe my colleague Diego just gave you a call about flash floods and floods of the differences. I wanted to just confirm, because I'm doing a fact check on like the regular or what's the right wording, like the how regular we El Paso experiences flash floods. And I just wanted to confirm whether or not a storm event on June 25 was a flash flood event or a flood event. I tried to check the NOAA data, but I see that it's not published until like a month later. Just was wondering if there's any way you can help confirm that,

Speaker 202:53

because I don't think we've issued any flood warnings because of the nature of what is a flood versus a flash flood, I would have been thunderstorm, rain, so there would be a flash flood. Okay, got it. That's all I want to come out in the northeast, right? Yeah, that was a flash flood. Awesome. Well,

Brandy Ruiz03:15

that's, that's all I wanted to know. Thank you so much. And you said your name is Tom b i R T Gotcha. And you're the meteorologist, I'm doing a

Unknown03:29

senior for senior forecasters or meteorologist.

Brandy Ruiz03:33

Thank you so much, Tom, I appreciate it.

Unknown03:35

Sure. You met, you'll have a good one.

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