The storm formed from the outflow of severe storms that unleashed flash flooding, damaging winds and hail.
A massive dust storm caused by severe thunderstorms carved a path more than 200 miles long through portions of New Mexico and northern Mexico on Wednesday, resulting in dangerously low visibility and multiple car crashes. Scientists were astonished by the size and strength of the storm as satellite imagery captured the giant wall of dust in stunning detail.
Massive Haboob heading east to west across southern New Mexico. Reports of less than a 1/4 mile visibility SE of Deming. If traveling along I-10 west of Deming & I-25 north of Hatch, please use caution!!!!“Largest haboob I’ve observed in 20 years or perhaps longer,” Tom Gill, an environmental scientist at the University of Texas at El Paso,Images and videos on social media also showed what the dust looked like as it moved through at ground level.
The dust storm, and the thunderstorms that spawned it, came amid wildfires that have burned more than 20,000 acres and killed at least two people in and around the village of Ruidoso, N.M., since Monday. Regions charred by wildfires, or “burn scars,” are extremely susceptible to flash flooding, according to the National Weather Service. Burned soil can repel as much water as pavement, which increases the risk of flash flooding.
The thunderstorms were at least partially generated by winds associated with Tropical Storm Alberto in the Gulf of Mexico, which has brought flooding to southern and southeastern Texas and Mexico.
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