Jul 16, 2014
Just after midnight on the morning of the 16th, a line of strong storms crossed south eastward across Interstate 40 near Santa Rosa. This storm produced two lightning strikes that hit a rest area and gas station causing power failures. ||The greatest amount of atmospheric moisture available to date for the summer of 2014 was in place across much of central New Mexico. Light northwest steering flow aloft beneath an upper level high pressure center building over southwestern New Mexico allowed fo
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 525506). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Sandoval County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.