{"id":378436,"date":"2026-07-19T05:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378436\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:18:40","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-warning-for-el-paso-canutillo-sunland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378436\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm warning for El Paso, Canutillo, Sunland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of the Borderland region on Saturday evening, July 18, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A thunderstorm warning has been issued until 9 p.m. Saturday for El Paso, Canutillo and Sunland Park, New Mexico until 9 p.m. on Saturday, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wind could reach 60 mph with quarter-sized hail possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A flash flood warning has been issued until 9:30 p.m. to Canutillo, Westway and Vinton, according to NWS. Avoid walking or driving through floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New Mexico Department of Transportation is reporting difficult driving conditions in the Anthony, New Mexico area with wet roadways and heavy hail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New Mexico Highway 28 was closed in both directions at mile marker 3 because of a downed tree, but reopened at about 9 p.m. Saturday, NMDOT said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NM 183 was closed in both directions at mile marker 1 because of a downed tree. It reopened at about 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here are some photos of dark clouds and rain over Downtown El Paso on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photos by Aaron Montes\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"674\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/6309e93cce793ded42734f59f9faff0b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Aaron Montes<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here is a photo of dark storm clouds over Las Cruces on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Cindy Lougheed\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"899\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/e9280c8ab3b46401e42f5a52dd6c85d3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Cindy Lougheed<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A look at the Lower Valley. Photo by Fernando Fernandez Jr.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ktsm_articles_153\/6add0e7ebe00a7e59f563ea5b5db4775.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A look at the Lower Valley. Photo by Fernando Fernandez Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can send us your weather photos at news@ktsm.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for parts of the Borderland region&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[120735,138,140,139,2383,39001,67330,3506,58279],"class_list":["post-378436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-canutillo","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico-department-of-transportation","tag-severe-thunderstorm-warning","tag-sunland-park","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}