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Thick dust blocks visibility in Roswell, New Mexico. The National Weather Service issued a Dust Storm Warning due to the low visibility. Roswell Air Center recorded a wind gust of 77 mph on Monday.
A massive dust storm buried parts of New Mexico and Texas in airborne smut Monday morning, shutting down highways and leaving nearly 900,000 residents trapped in a potentially deadly cloud.
The Spring River channel overflowed causing what the National Weather Service in Albuquerque described as "extreme flooding" in downtown Roswell and throughout the southeastern New Mexico town of ...
New Mexico [a] is a state in the ... Extreme Weather Watch [90] Source 2: ... Today, New Mexico's Interstate Highways approximate the earlier land routes of the ...
The dust storm, known meteorologically as a haboob, swept across Deming and Doña Ana counties in New Mexico at a breakneck pace with near-zero visibility and winds of 45 mph, the National Weather ...
As a result of rainfall totals, which peaked at 17.16 in (43.6 cm) in Fannett, Texas, widespread flash flooding occurred. [1] Outside those states, Kansas saw up to 8.16 inches (20.7 cm) of rain, and 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) wind gusts, while New Mexico recorded a 69 miles per hour (111 km/h) wind gust. [5]
The Doña Ana County Flood Commission in the U.S. state of New Mexico defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event."
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash flood warnings in New Mexico prompted officials to order some mandatory evacuations, with shelters set up for displaced residents.