Flash Flood in New Mexico, September 20, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

None recorded

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:07 UTC.

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Flash Flood

Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Hail in Colorado, September 20, 1997$1.0 million · 4 in hail · 1 event
• Flash Flood and Heavy Rain in New Mexico, September 20 to 21, 1997$300,000 · 4 events
• Damaging Wind in Colorado, September 20, 1997$150,000 · 80 kt wind · 1 event
• Hail in Colorado, September 20, 1997$150,000 · 0.75 in hail · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Ohio, September 20, 1997$75,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Ohio, September 20, 1997$75,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Ohio, September 20, 1997$50,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in New Mexico, September 20, 1997$40,000 · 75 kt wind · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in Connecticut, September 20, 19973 injured · 50 kt wind · 2 events
• Dense Fog in Wyoming, September 20, 1997$14,000 · 2 events
• High Wind in Alaska, September 20 to 23, 199750 kt wind · 3 events
• Hail in New Mexico, September 20, 19971 in hail · 3 events

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NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5617506.