1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Jun 20, 12:00 PM MST, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 200 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002 RIDGE ALOFT AND WARM TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN ANCHORED ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. SURFACE DEWPOINTS AOA 60F EXTENDING WESTWARD TO THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS WITH AMPLE INSTABILITY PER KMAF MORNING SOUNDING RESULTING IN ISOLATED STORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. CONVECTION IS BEING ENHANCED BY A WEAK UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS NEW MEXICO ALONG WESTERN PERIPHERY OF UPPER RIDGE PER CURRENT WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. DUE TO INSTABILITY AND WEAK WINDS ALOFT... EXPECT A FEW LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING STORMS TO SLOWLY DRIFT OFF THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE GUADALUPE AND DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND BRIEFLY PULSE TO NEAR SEVERE WITH STRONG DOWNDRAFTS AND SOME HAIL PRIOR TO WEAKENING AROUND SUNSET. THETA-E RIDGE TO SHIFT WEST OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...THEN DRIFT EASTWARD ACROSS WEST TEXAS EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL RESULT IN A SLIGHT COOLING OF MAX TEMPS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...WITH THE RETURN TO 30+C 850MB TEMPERATURES AND SOME TRIPLE DIGIT AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. MAF 070/095/069/094 0000 LSA 069/095/068/094 0000 6R6 074/095/073/096 0000 MRF 062/090/060/088 1111 CNM 070/098/068/097 1111 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. R.FAGEN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1013 PM CDT THU JUN 20 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0441 PM TX 1.50 IN HAIL
06/20/02 CULBERSON QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR
SIZED HAIL 15 MILES SOUTH
OF THE INTERSECTION OF
HIGHWAY 62/180 AND
HIGHWAY 54. REPORT FROM
PARK RANGER.
0655 PM PRESIDIO TX 0.88 IN HAIL
06/20/02 PRESIDIO NICKEL SIZED HAIL.
REPORTED BY POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
0700 PM PRESIDIO TX 0.75 IN HAIL
06/20/02 PRESIDIO DIME SIZED HAIL COVERING
THE GROUND. REPORT FROM
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION.
0955 PM 6SE PRESIDIO TX FLASH FLOOD
06/20/02 PRESIDIO 1-1.5 FEET OF RUNNING
WATER COVERING FM 170.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous reports of flash flooding were received from the area around Artesia. Most of the reports from the city of Artesia proper were associated with flash flooding along Eagle Creek. Highway 2 was closed north of Artesia near the Eddy/Chavez County line along Walnut Creek.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, June 2002
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: 5301981.