Sep 22, 2014
An upper level impulse moving very slowly northeast over New Mexico after multiple days of heavy rainfall produced areas of flash flooding yet again. A wave of heavy rainfall early in the day over Chaves County produced flash flooding along U.S. 285 north of Roswell. The most serious flash flooding occurred later in the day around Santa Fe as a slow-moving thunderstorm dropped more than 2 inches of rainfall. A 50-year-old man in the Santa Fe River was washed away and drowned by flood waters late
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 538580). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Socorro County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.