Flash Flood in New Mexico, May 23, 1999

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.

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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.

• Lightning Strike in California, May 23, 19991 death · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Tennessee, May 23, 1999$6.0 million · 1 event
• Tornadoes in Michigan, May 23, 1999$60,000 · F1 · 2 events
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 23, 1999$72,000 · 52 kt wind · 14 events
• Flash Flooding and Flood in Oklahoma, May 23, 1999$28,000 · 54 kt wind · 22 events
• Lightning Strike in Texas, May 23, 1999$50,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 23, 1999$20,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 23, 1999$6,000 · 1.75 in hail · 14 events
• Flooding in Kansas, May 23 to 24, 199911 events
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 23, 1999$15,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 23, 1999$15,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 23, 1999$1,000 · 4 events

Every storm in New Mexico in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 1999

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: 5697345.