2 flash flood, 1 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 Sep 15, 1:45 AM MST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 345 AM CDT SUN SEP 15 2002 THE LATEST WV LOOP SHOWS A POSITIVE TILT MID-LEVEL TROUGH FROM NRN MX INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST. VORT MAX IN THE BASE OF MENTIONED TROUGH WAS OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL NM. A LITTLE CLOSER TO HOME...AREA RADARS CONTINUE TO SHOW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CWA. AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT WAS LOCATED OVER THE NORTHERN DAVIS MOUNTAINS TO NEAR KMAF TO KSPS. SHORT TERM FORECAST CONCERNS ARE THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE CONVECTION TODAY AS THE UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE LITTLE OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. 09/00Z 500MB UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWED A THERMAL TROUGH OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES WHILE 850MB CHART SHOWED HEALTHY DEW POINTS NEAR 14C OVER WEST TEXAS. CLOUD COVER WILL LIKELY LIMIT INSTABILITY OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN CWA...HOWEVER THERE SHOULD BE LESS CLOUD COVER OUT WEST WITH LOWER 850MB DEW POINTS AND SUBSIDENT REGION OVER NRN MX NOSING INTO FAR WEST TX. WE HAVE OPTED TO BOOST POPS SLIGHTLY WITH COOL MID-LEVEL TEMPS...MORE THAN ADEQUATE MOISTURE AND FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINING IN THE AREA. THE CURRENT FORECAST CALLS FOR DRY WEATHER ON MONDAY AS THE UPPER TROUGH FINALLY GETS NUDGED EAST COURTESY OF AN UPPER TROUGH MOVING THROUGH ID. BASED ON THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE UPPER TROUGH AND TAIL END OF FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING SOUTH OUT OF THE AREA...WE HAVE ENOUGH CONFIDENCE TO ADD SLIGHT CHANCE POPS OVER THE FAR SOUTHEASTERN CWA. POPS MAY HAVE TO BE BROADENED OVER THE EAST IF TROUGH MOVES SLOWER THAN PROGGED. A QUICK BUT SIGNIFICANT WARMUP IN STORE FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AS A LEE-SIDE TROUGH DEVELOPS AND WESTERLY DOWNSLOPE FLOW ENSUES. A WEAK...DRY PAC COLD FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY FOR SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS THURSDAY. STRONGER COLD FRONT ADVERTISED BY GFS FOR LATE FRIDAY/EARLY SATURDAY. THE PRELIMINARY GUIDANCE BELOW IS FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES ONLY. OFFICIAL FORECASTS ARE CONTAINED WITHIN THE WEST TEXAS/SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO ZONE FORECAST. MAF 75/58/80 42-0 LSA 76/55/79 32-0 6R6 82/64/85 4322 MRF 74/51/78 43-- CNM 76/55/81 32-0 .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. PLATT
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-152000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 522 AM CDT SUN SEP 15 2002 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO TODAY. THIS UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM...WILL COMBINE WITH A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA TODAY. .WEATHER HAZARDS... THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE DAY ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...AND SMALL HAIL. PONDING OF WATER MAY OCCUR ON ROADS... ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS ON SATURDAY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY...SO SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER...SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. CL
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash flooding resulted in three feet of water over County Road 28.
Officials reported flash flooding which resulted in high water up to three feet deep over a low water crossing at Dark Canyon Draw near Hidalgo. One vehicle was stalled in the flood waters. No injuries were reported.
Numerous reports of high water in arroyos and low water crossings were received through mid morning.
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, September 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: 5315520, 5315585, 5315586.