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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX

845 PM MDT THU SEP 12 2002



...HEAVY RAINS AND FLASH FLOODING STRIKE NORTHERN OTERO 

COUNTY...



LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF STRONG 

THUNDERSTORMS DROPPED OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF 

NORTHERN OTERO COUNTY INCLUDING THE ALAMOGORDO AREA AND EASTWARD 

ALONG HIGHWAY 82 NEAR MOUNTAIN PARK AND HIGH ROLLS. HEAVY RAINS ALSO 

FELL ALONG HIGHWAY 54 BETWEEN ALAMOGORDO AND TULAROSA. THE HEAVY 

RAINS CAUSED WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING IN ALAMOGORDO AND ROCK 

SLIDES AND STREET FLOODING AROUND HIGH ROLLS AND MOUNTAIN PARK. 

PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 54 WERE ALSO FLOODED NORTH OF ALAMOGORDO.



THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. 

THEREFORE THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.



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