Temperatures near the century mark and dry surface conditions led to isolated thunderstorm development with a dry microburst affecting Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS EPZ wrote it up.
Temperatures near the century mark and dry surface conditions led to isolated thunderstorm development with a dry microburst affecting Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
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 Jul 1, 2:31 PM MST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 331 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 .SYNOPSIS... UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP US MOSTLY DRY THROUGH THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES WILL RUN NEAR NORMAL THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. RAIN CHANCES WILL REMAIN MINIMAL THROUGH THE END OF NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION... HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE NAME OF THE GAME FOR THE NEXT WEEK. WHILE AT THE SURFACE WE HAVE A VERY MONSOON LIKE FLOW FROM THE SOUTHEAST...ALOFT WE HAVE A PRETTY STRONG AREA OF UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE. THIS HIGH IS NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY FAR OVER THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS. DESPITE THE SOUTHEAST WINDS AT THE SURFACE BRINGING IN SOME MOISTURE...THE TRAJECTORIES ALOFT ARE BRINGING IN DRY CONTINENTAL AIR. EVERY MORNING FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS WILL SEE NICE HIGH DEW POINTS...BUT THEN AS THE AIR BEGINS MIX UP INTO THE DRIER LAYERS ABOVE...WE WILL SEE OUR SURFACE DEW POINTS TAKE A BIG FALL BY THE EARLY AFTERNOON. SO RAIN CHANCES THIS WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK WILL BE LIMITED. I HAVE MENTIONABLE RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS...BUT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE WE WILL HAVE QUITE ENOUGH MOISTURE TO MENTION POPS IN THE LOWLANDS...THOUGH IT WON'T SURPRISE ME TO SEE A COUPLE OF WEAK DRY THUNDERSTORMS POP UP IN THE LOWLANDS EACH DAY. STILL NO SIGN OF A STRONG MONSOON PUSH. TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF INDICATE THAT A SURGE OF MONSOON MOISTURE MAY MOVE INTO ARIZONA. THIS WON'T HELP OUR DROUGHT PROBLEMS...BUT AT LEAST IT IS A SIGN THAT THE MONSOON FLOW IS TRYING TO GET STARTED. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES EACH DAY THROUGH THE MIDDLE PART OF NEXT WEEK WILL RUN VERY NEAR SEASONAL NORMALS. BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE MAY STRENGTHEN A LITTLE AND WE WILL SEE HIGHS RUNNING TWO TO FOUR DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. && .AVIATION...VALID 02/00Z-03/00Z. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT CENTERED NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS...WILL CONTINUE BUILDING OVER THE REGION.THIS WILL LIMIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT MOSTLY OVER HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN THE GILA NATIONAL FOREST AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS...WITH PERHAPS AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST DESERTS THROUGH 05Z. STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE GENERALLY FROM EAST TO WEST 9 TO 12 MPH. LOOK FOR -TSRA/VRB20G40KT AND VSBY 3-5 SM/BLDU AS RAIN MIXES NEAR OR UNDER ANY MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHAFTS. && .FIRE DISCUSSION... HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT BUILDING OVER THE FOUR CORNERS...WILL LIMIT AFTERNOON SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO MAINLY OVER HIGHER TERRAIN IN THE CAPITAN AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS...AND GILA NATIONAL FOREST / ALDO LEOPOLD WILDERNESS AREAS THROUGH AT LEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK. LOOK FOR HIGH BASED STORMS WITH GUSTY ERRATIC WINDS AND DRY LIGHTNING AS THE MAIN THREATS. LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY WHERE ESPECIALLY WHERE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FALLS OVER PREVIOUSLY BURNED SPOTS. HIGHS SATURDAY WILL CONTINUE A COUPLE DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...COOLING NEAR NORMAL BY SUNDAY AND INTO NEXT WEEK. WETTING PRECIPITATION REMAINS LIKELY WITH STRONGER STORMS. AS SEEN THE LAST FEW DAYS...HEAVIER PRECIPITATION CORES WILL PRODUCE OUTFLOW WINDS...WHICH WILL SPREAD FAR OUTSIDE LOCATIONS RECEIVING WETTING RAINS. FOR LATER NEXT WEEK...GFS AND EUROPEAN SOLUTIONS NOW ANCHOR UPPER LEVEL HIGH CENTER OVER OR NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. EARLIER RUNS HAD MIGRATED THE HIGH CENTER WEST OVER ARIZONA. THIS SHIFT EAST IS DUE TO INFLUENCE OF ANOTHER LARGE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH FORECAST INTO THE NORTHWEST AT END OF NEXT WEEK. REMAINS TO BEE SEEN THIS FAR OUT OF COURSE...HOWEVER ITS SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON FOR SW WINDS...IF HIGH SHIFTS FURTHER EAST IN RESPONSE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... EL PASO 77 97 76 96 74 / 10 10 10 10 10 SIERRA BLANCA TX 71 92 70 92 70 / 10 10 10 10 10 LAS CRUCES 72 97 73 95 72 / 10 10 10 10 10 ALAMOGORDO 71 94 70 93 70 / 10 10 10 10 10 CLOUDCROFT 49 74 50 73 48 / 20 10 10 10 10 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES 71 95 70 94 71 / 20 10 10 10 10 SILVER CITY 60 87 59 87 58 / 20 10 10 10 10 DEMING 72 96 71 95 72 / 10 10 10 10 10 LORDSBURG 72 97 70 96 70 / 20 10 10 10 10 && .EPZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && BRICE/TRIPOLI
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 1246 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-021900- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION- TULAROSA BASIN/SOUTHERN DESERT-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST DESERT/BOOTHEEL-SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN- SOUTHERN DESERT-EL PASO-HUDSPETH- 1246 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ISOLATED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 145 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 NMZ025-012030- SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS NM- 145 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2011 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THREATENING NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM MDT... AT 139 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUIDOSO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... APACHE SUMMIT... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. TORRENTIAL RAIN MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY. JMG
The El Paso radar (KEPZ), 0 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:47 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A dry microburst affected the National Weather Service Office in Santa Teresa with a measured gust of 70 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 2011
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: 331557.