Flash Flood, Lea
- When
- August 25, 8:45 PM MST to 10:45 PM MST
- Where
- Lea County, 10 mi NE of Tatum
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.792, -103.412 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in New Mexico, August 25, 2001
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 25, 6:52 PM MST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 6:52 PM MST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 852 PM CDT SAT AUG 25 2001 UPDATED ZONES SENT TO RAISE POPS ACROSS NORTHERN/CENTRAL ZONES BASED LARGELY ON LATEST RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS. ALSO MENTIONED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES AS SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ALLOWED FOR RADAR ESTIMATES OVER 3 INCHES...WHICH HAS BEEN FOLLOWED BY A FEW REPORTS OF MINOR FLOODING. .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. JBM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:47 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Delaware, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Indiana, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2001
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, August 25, 2001
- Rip Currents in New Jersey, August 25 to 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in Texas, August 25, 2001
- Tornado in Illinois, August 25, 2001
- Hail in South Dakota, August 25, 2001
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, August 2001
Sources
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: 5266422.