1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 7, 8:52 AM MST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION - UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 952 AM MDT MON OCT 7 2002 SYNOPSIS... LOW LEVEL SOUTHEAST WINDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT THAT PASSED OVERNIGHT WILL IMPORT EVEN MORE MOISTURE INTO THE AREA TODAY AND TUESDAY. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IS ON A COURSE TO PASS DIRECTLY OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS TUESDAY. THE RESULT OF THE COMBINED FORCES OF THE COLD FRONT...THE UPPER LEVEL STORM...AND THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN CLOUDY SKIES...MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES AND NUMEROUS LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FOR TODAY AND TUESDAY. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE WEDNESDAY WITH DRIER AIR MOVING BACK INTO THE REGION. DISCUSSION... FORECAST UPDATED TO INCLUDE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR GRANT AND HIDALGO COUNTIES WHERE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AS WELL AS SMALL HAIL. SOME TRAINING HAS BEEN OBSERVED ON SATELLITE AND RADAR INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE ACCUMULATIONS OF RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF THE WATCH AREA. THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL EXISTS OVER MOST OF THE CWA WITH PRECIP WATER VALUES OVER AN INCH TODAY AND REMAINING NEAR AN INCH TOMORROW. A SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK OVER THE FORECAST AREA PROVIDING THE INSTABILITY AND FORCING NEEDED TO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS. .ELP...FLASH FLOOD WTCH ...NM ZNS 22 30 04 N
NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-071415- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 550 AM MDT MON OCT 7 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. .TODAY AND TONIGHT... HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS POSSIBLE TODAY. ABUNDANT MOISTURE IS IN PLACE OVER THE AREA. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IS APPROACHING FROM THE WEST WHICH WILL TRIGGER AREA WIDE SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND NIGHT. MOST STORMS WILL NOT REACH SEVERE LIMITS BUT A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HEAVY RAINFALL AND A THREAT OF LOCAL FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER SERVICES MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK OVER THE AREA TUESDAY AND AREA SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THE STORM SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE AREA AND THE REST OF THE WEEK LOOKS TO BE DRY. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IS SLATED TO AFFECT THE AREA NEXT WEEKEND. BIRD
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 181 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
An inch and a half to two inches of rain within an hour flooded portions of area roads, especially Highway 9 just east of Animas and Highway 90 near Lordsburg.
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, October 2002
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