A deep trough was located through the Great Basin south into an area just west of Baja. Southwest flow ahead of this system tapped into some of the Baja moisture and with the slow movement of the system allowed a heavy rain band to setup across Luna County and produce some urban flooding.
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The episode as NWS EPZ wrote it up.
A deep trough was located through the Great Basin south into an area just west of Baja. Southwest flow ahead of this system tapped into some of the Baja moisture and with the slow movement of the system allowed a heavy rain band to setup across Luna County and produce some urban flooding.
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 Nov 24, 2:55 PM MST, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 255 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 .SYNOPSIS... A VIGOROUS PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL TRACK INTO THE BORDERLAND THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT BEFORE PASSING THROUGH ON FRIDAY. A PLUME OF MOISTURE AND A COLD FRONT WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STRONG UPPER-LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. THIS COMBINATION WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS. WITH WARM TEMPERATURES IN PLACE ONLY THE VERY HIGHEST TERRAIN WILL SEE ANY SNOW OVERNIGHT. FRIDAY MORNING THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE IN AS THE UPPER STORM PASSES OVER. THIS WILL BRING COOLER AIR TO THE REGION AND ALLOW FOR SOME LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...UP TO 3 INCHES...OVER MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS ABOVE 8000 FT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON FRIDAY AS BREEZY AND GUSTY WINDS WORK WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES TO MAKE THE DAY FEEL BRISK. THE STORM SYSTEM WILL PULL OUT OF THE REGION LATE FRIDAY TO BE REPLACED BY A LARGE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE FOR THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL KEEP THE REGION DRY THROUGH NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL RUN A BIT BELOW NORMAL. && .DISCUSSION... TRYING TO VERIFY CURRENT MODELS SOLUTIONS WITH CURRENT WX OCCURRENCES ACROSS THE SW U.S. AND NW MEXICO. IT'S LOOKING PRETTY GOOD FOR THE LATEST STRING OF FORECAST PACKAGES. WATCHING A LONG AREA OF THICK CLOUDS AND SCATTERED CONVECTIVE STORM ACTIVITY DEVELOPING FROM NEAR DOUGLAS, AZ SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE BAJA. THIS IS ON SUB-TROPICAL MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH A LONG WESTERLY FETCH FOCUSED OVER THE AREA BY THE BASE OF THE APPROACHING PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM. THE WATER VAPOR SATELLITE IMAGERY IS BEGINNING SHOW A CONNECTION WITH THE SW FLOW ON THE FRONT SIDE OF THE TROUGH AND KENNITH. THUS EXPECT INCREASING MOISTURE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS WE GET SOME TROPICAL TAP...AND SATELLITE SOUNDERS DO SHOW INCREASING PW IN THE FLOW UPSTREAM. HOWEVER THIS DOESN'T LOOK AS GOOD AS IN PREVIOUS RUNS...AND WILL ONLY HAPPEN IF THE SYSTEM DOESN'T PUSH IT TOO FAR EAST TOO EARLY. AS IT STANDS THE MODELS SHOW 0.8 INCHES OF PW FOR THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD. THIS IS VERY MUCH ABOVE NORMAL. MODELS SHOW THE UPPER TROUGH TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE BAJA THIS EVENING AND OVER OUR FORECAST AREA EARLY FRIDAY. IMPRESSIVE DYNAMICS BEGIN EARLY THIS EVENING AS PVA AND THE RRQ OF THE 90+ KT JET MOVE OVER THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY A COLD POOL ALOFT EARLY FRIDAY TO DESTABILIZE THE AIRMASS. THE AIRMASS MOISTURE LEVELS AND THE THE QPF ARE A BIT LOWER IN THE LATEST SET OF MODEL RUNS...BUT THE TIMING AND COVERAGE ARE CONSISTENT. THAT BEING SHOWERS BEGINNING LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE BOOTHEEL...SPREADING NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE EVENING. EXPECTING SCT TO NUMEROUS SHOWER COVERAGE OVERNIGHT. THEN INCREASED INSTABILITY EARLY FRIDAY THROUGH THE DAY AS THE COLD POOL ALOFT TRACKS ACROSS IN THE BASE OF THE TROUGH. THE COLD FRONT LOOKS TO ARRIVE OUT WEST EARLY MORNING...AND PROGRESS EAST TO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY BY NOON. EVEN WITH THIS COOLER AIR THROUGH THE DEPTH OF THE ENVIRONMENT...SNOW LEVELS DO NOT DROP VERY LOW. A MARGINALLY SATURATED COLUMN WILL KEEP EVAPORATIVE COOLING FROM LOWERING SNOW LEVELS. THUS EXPECT ONLY A COUPLE OF INCHES AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 8000 FT. TEMPERATURES TOMORROW SHOULD BE 10-15 DEGREES COOLER BEHIND THE MID DAY FRONTAL PASSAGE. THE STORM SYSTEM EXITS LATE IN THE DAY FRIDAY. A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS ALOFT TO OUR WEST. WE WILL STAY IN DEEP NORTHERLY FLOW OVER THE REGION AND THUS COOLER TEMPERATURES FOR WEEKEND. FOR NEXT WEEK IT APPEARS THAT THE RIDGE WILL LARGELY STAY IN PLACE...KEEPING THE REGION DRY AND GENERALLY CLEAR. TEMPERATURES WILL YO-YO AS SEVERAL FRONTAL BOUNDARIES MOVE THROUGH KEEPING TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW NORMAL. 14-BIRD && .AVIATION...VALID 25/00Z-26/00Z. WARM WINTER STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THIS EVENING...SPREADING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STORMS INTO OUR FLYING AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. SNOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN HIGH AROUND 8000 FT MSL...MIXING WITH GRAUPEL AND RAIN DOWN TO 7000 FT. DOWNDRAFTS UNDER TALLER CONVECTIVE TOWERS MAY TEMPORARILY LOWER SNOW LEVELS TO 6000 FEET FOR AN HOUR OR SO. DISTURBANCE WILL DRAG COLD FRONT THROUGH OUR FLYING AREA FRIDAY. FRONT SHOULD REACH OUR W NM BORDER FROM AZ BY 15Z...MOVING THROUGH THE EL PASO AREA BY 20Z AND THROUGH EASTERN HUDSPETH COUNTY BY 22Z.] LOOK FOR OCNL MDT TURBC OVR/NR MTNS BLO 150.... WITH SW SFC WNDS 10 TO 20 KTS...SHIFTING NW-N BEHIND FRONT. EXPECT CIGS LOWERING TO 3-6KFT AGL IN -SHRA/5-6SM VSBY. ISOLD EMBEDDED -TSRA LIKELY. LOWER VSBY TO 3SM LIKELY ABV 8KFT AGL IN -SHSN. CIGS BEGIN TO DISSIPATE FROM NW-SE AFT 23Z FRIDAY. 22-TRIPOLI && .FIRE WEATHER... WARM UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL SWING THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT AND FRIDAY...DELIVERING SHOWERS AND STORMS FOR MOST AREAS AND A WINTRY MIX WITH SNOW DOWN TO 8000 FEET FRIDAY. RAIN MAY BE HEAVY IN SOME AREAS THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF A SILVER CITY-DEMING-COLUMBUS LINE. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOWFALL ARE LIKELY FOR THE GILA AND ALDO LEOPOLD WILDERNESS AREAS BY DAYS END FRIDAY...WITH ANOTHER INCH POSSIBLE LOCALLY IN SPOTS WITH FAVORED EXPOSURE TO THE WIND AND SNOW. UP TO 3 INCHES ALSO POSSIBLE FOR HIGHER REACHES OF THE SACRAMENTO AND CAPITAN MOUNTAINS BY FRIDAY EVENING...WHEN SYSTEM EXITS THE AREA. DOWNDRAFTS ASSOCIATED WITH STRONGER CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ARE EXPECTED TO TEMPORARILY LOWER SNOW LEVELS AS LOW AS 7000 FEET FOR AN HOUR OR SO...MAINLY FRIDAY. DISTURBANCE WILL ALSO SEND A MODERATELY STRONG PACIFIC COLD FRONT THROUGH LATER FRIDAY...DELIVERING STRONGEST WINDS OF THE PERIOD. HOWEVER WIDESPREAD WIND SPEEDS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH THOSE FOR CRITICAL FIRE CONDITIONS. ABUNDANT CLOUD COVER AND DEVELOPMENT OF ONLY WEAK LEE SIDE TROUGH FRIDAY...WILL ALLOW FOR ONLY BREEZY CONDITIONS FRIDAY. LOCAL PASSES...GAPS AND RIDGE LINES WILL BE THE EXCEPTION WITH WINDY CONDITIONS AT TIMES. COOL DRY N-NW FLOW ALOFT WILL FOLLOW UNDER A HIGHLY AMPLIFIED PATTERN THROUGH NEXT MONDAY...AS AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS TO OUR WEST STARTING SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RUN 1-4 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL AS A RESULT. RIDGE BREAKS DOWN LATER ON MONDAY...WITH A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND NW FLOW EXPECTED TO RETURN STARTING NEXT TUESDAY. 22-TRIPOLI && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... EL PASO 50 62 41 58 35 / 80 70 0 0 0 SIERRA BLANCA TX 50 62 36 52 31 / 50 80 0 0 0 LAS CRUCES 48 62 38 59 30 / 90 70 0 0 0 ALAMOGORDO 48 59 35 58 31 / 80 80 10 0 0 CLOUDCROFT 35 45 24 40 20 / 90 90 20 0 0 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES 45 59 36 56 30 / 80 50 0 0 0 SILVER CITY 42 51 30 50 27 / 80 50 0 0 0 DEMING 47 61 36 57 30 / 80 40 0 0 0 LORDSBURG 48 60 35 61 30 / 80 40 0 0 0 && .EPZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NM...NONE. TX...NONE. && 14/22
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 520 AM MST THU NOV 24 2011 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-251230- 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- 520 AM MST THU NOV 24 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. RAIN SHOWERS BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF DEMING AND SPREADING TO THE REST OF THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ALSO POSSIBLE TONIGHT...WITH SOME LOCAL HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING WILL CONTINUE RAIN SHOWERS AND SWITCH TO SNOW AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 7000 FEET. UP TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE ABOVE 8000 FEET. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. HEFNER
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX/SANTA TERESA NM 315 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-251100- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SILVER CITY...TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES... ALAMOGORDO...MESCALERO...CLOUDCROFT...TIMBERON...LORDSBURG... DEMING...LAS CRUCES...EL PASO...SIERRA BLANCA...DELL CITY 315 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 ...STRONG FALL STORM TO MOVE INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING IN FROM THE PACIFIC...COMBINED WITH A SURGE OF TROPICAL MOISTURE MOVING UP FROM THE SOUTH...WILL SPREAD RAIN TO SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS THIS EVENING. THE RAIN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN WEST OF DEMING AND THEN GRADUALLY SPREAD EAST TO THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS AND WEST TEXAS BY THURSDAY EVENING. THIS IS AN UNSEASONABLY MOIST SYSTEM AND COULD PRODUCE A FEW AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN DESERTS...FROM DEMING WEST THIS EVENING. THE UPPER TROUGH AND SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL THEN PUSH THROUGH THE AREA FRIDAY MORNING. EXPECT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS RAIN SHOWERS WITH SOME EMBEDDED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH FRIDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE REGION WITH BREEZY AND GUSTY WESTERLY WINDS. SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE AREAS OF STRONGER GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL. COOLER AIR WILL FILL IN BEHIND THE COLD FRONT AND ALLOW FOR SNOW TO BEGIN TO FALL OVER MOUNTAIN ELEVATIONS ABOVE 7000 FT ELEVATION WITH UP TO 3 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION AT OR ABOVE 8000 FT ELEVATION. BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON SHOWERS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH FROM WEST TO EAST AND THEN TAPER OFF DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. GRADUAL CLEARING OF THE SKIES AND COOLER TEMPERATURES WILL FOLLOW OVERNIGHT. PERSONS SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER WEATHER UPDATES. BIRD
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 718 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 NMZ022-023-031-250315- SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN NM-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION NM- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/LOWER GILA REGION NM- 718 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS ARE MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 715 PM MST AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS LUNA COUNTY...EASTERN GRANT COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN SIERRA COUNTY NEW MEXICO. HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED AROUND DEMING...COLUMBUS...HERMANAS...LAKE VALLEY...FAYWOOD AND CABALLO LAKE STATE PARK. THE RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS THIS AREA THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED A HALF INCH OVER A FEW LOCATIONS RESULTING IN THE PONDING OF WATER OVER LOW LYING AREAS. HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS MAY OCCUR FROM LOW VISIBILITIES AND WATER COVERED ROADS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS INTERSTATES 10 AND 25 AND HIGHWAYS 9...26...180. ROGASH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 812 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 NMZ023-031-032-250415- SOUTHWEST DESERT/MIMBRES BASIN NM-SIERRA COUNTY LAKES REGION NM- SOUTHERN DESERT NM- 812 PM MST THU NOV 24 2011 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 8 PM MST AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS CONTINUED MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO OVER LUNA...SIERRA AND NORTHERN DONA ANA COUNTIES. HEAVIEST RAINS WERE AROUND DEMING...COLUMBUS...HATCH...GARFIELD...CABALLO AND TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY EXCEED A HALF INCH OVER ISOLATED LOCATIONS RESULTING IN THE PONDING OF WATER...ESPECIALLY OVER LOW LYING AREAS. HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS MAY OCCUR FROM WATER COVERED ROADS AND FROM LOW VISIBILITIES...INCLUDING ACROSS INTERSTATES 10 AND 25 AND HIGHWAYS 26 AND 187. ROGASH
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flooding was reported on several streets in Deming with up to a foot of water covering some low lying areas in town.
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