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Flash Flood — Lincoln, NM

May 30, 2021

With a low pressure system centered to the southwest of New Mexico and an anomalously moist air mass being transported into the state, the stage was set for another round of showers and thunderstorms across the area on May 30, 2021. Thunderstorm activity formed by the late morning hours and intensified as the day progressed. Several reports of large hail was received across central and eastern New Mexico, and a few tornadoes and landspouts were observed across the plains. The anomalously moist a

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 952642). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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