Severe Weather and Flooding affected the
West Texas and Southeast New Mexico region. This was an early
outbreak of severe weather over our forecast and warning area.
Below are some images and links to some of the storm data that occurred
with this event.
March 21- 22...
A number of tornadoes were generated during both events.
One tornado that struck the community of Wickett (Ward County)
was rated an F0. This tornado did some damage in town.
Hail to golfball in size was reported with some of the severe
thunderstorms March 21 and early March 22nd. Those storms
affected an area from north of Pecos (Reeves County) and Mentone
(Loving County), to north of Hobbs (Lea County), Seminole (Gaines
County), and Lamesa (Dawson County). Rainfall amounts those
storms upwards of 2.56" was measured in Seminole (Gaines
County), with radar estimates of over 5" east of Seminole.
See the rainfall image for March 21-22nd.
March 22 - 23...
This severe storm and flooding event was even busier. This
event started during the early afternoon with a severe thunderstorm
warning forUpton County. Many of those thunderstorms were
obviously of the supercell variety (per our radar and spotter
reports), producing an assortment of severe weather. A few
tornado touchdowns were noted from this event, with some damage
reported in Upton, Glasscock, and Reagan counties. See the
Reagan/Glasscock Damage Report below. We also received
numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds associated with
those severe thunderstorms.
Those storms exhibited a train echoing characteristic (forming
and moving over the same location). This produced widespread
flooding and flash flooding, covering an area roughly 20 miles
either side of a line from north of Bakersfield (Pecos County)
to Greenwood (Midland County), to east of Garden City (Glasscock
County), to Big Spring (Howard County), and Snyder (Scurry County).
Rivers and streams over our eastern and southeastern areas quickly
rose to flood stage. Many roads over this area were closed
the evening of March 22nd and remained closed through the morning
hours.
weather.gov 
