Flash Flood in Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Flash Flood September 9, 2009 · Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Death

$1K

Damage as recorded

$100

Crop damage

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Four people in the North Diversion Channel under Interstate 25 at Montgomery Blvd. were swept downstream by swift moving water from a nearby thunderstorm that was producing heavy rain. Three men were able to pull themselves out of the Channel, but a fourth male, Brandon Clifford Jordan, was found dead the next day in the Channel at 2nd street and Alameda.

The wider storm

An upper level disturbance combined with plenty of low level moisture to generate showers and thunderstorms over central New Mexico. Four people in a diversion channel were swept away by fast moving water, resulting in one death.

Began near Albuquerque (35.1320, -106.6054).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 187611. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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