May 31, 2023
Sufficient lift ahead of an upper low over California and Arizona and Gulf moisture ahead of the dryline across eastern New Mexico allowed widespread showers and storms to initiate around midday. Several supercells produced large and severe hail along with two tornadoes in the central and south-central highlands of Guadalupe and Lincoln County. Later that evening, training supercells grew upscale into a convective complex with flash flooding across east central New Mexico.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1093007). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in De Baca County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.