Oct 5, 2004
An active round of severe weather affected southeastern New Mexico during the late afternoon and evening of the 5th. Isolated supercell storms initially tracked across northern Lea County and southern Eddy County. The storms produced large hail and damaging thunderstorm winds. By early evening, a squall line had evolved along the foothills of the Sacramento and Guadalupe Mountains. The line of severe storms propagated east over southeastern New Mexico and absorbed the supercellular convection. S
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5426585). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Lea County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.