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Texas, Kansas, New Mexico under tornado threat, large hail and heavy rain expected. What to know

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April 23, 2025

Texas, Kansas, New Mexico under tornado threat, large hail and heavy rain expected. What to know

Deadly storms have left a trail of destruction across the central US, but the danger is far from over. Severe weather is still brewing, with forecasters warning that more hazardous storms are heading towards the south. These storms are likely to bring large hail, heavy rain, and lead to potential tornadoes

Texas, Kansas, New Mexico under tornado threat, large hail and heavy rain expected (Unsplash – representational image)

A severe thunderstorm system is expected to activate on April 22 across northeastern Kansas and Texas while penetrating New Mexico. AccuWeather warnings reported that more dangerous storms containing baseball-sized hail, torrential rainfalls, and individual tornadoes are also predicted. The areas that are most affected are likely to experience destruction of houses, combined with automobiles and agricultural fields.

This weather system could in fact pass across the southern US over a long period of time, spanning through the entire week, with the development of more intense weather conditions. The Mississippi and Ohio valleys are expected to experience heavy rainfall by April 25. Areas that have not dried up after recent heavy rainfalls could face flash flooding too.

Flash flood threat in other areas

Heavy showers during the first week of April brought up to 16 inches of rain in four days to parts of the mid-Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys, Accuweather reported. Some of the small streams and secondary rivers have since receded, but the main surge of water is still moving downstream on the lower Mississippi River. Moderate to major flooding continues in this area.

The Mississippi River has recently crested, or is expected to soon crest, along the shores of Tennessee, Arkansas and northern Mississippi. However, a crest around Baton Rouge is not predicted to happen until the end of the month.

Areas west of the Mississippi River experienced heavy rain over the Easter holiday weekend. This pushed some rivers in the southern and central Plains above flood stage. The secondary surge, expected to cycle down the Mississippi in the following weeks, will possibly bring lower water levels than the first surge.

Several downpours into Friday are expected to be poorly organised because of the storm systems’ weak nature, which has been drifting west to east from the Plains to the Atlantic coast or the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, moisture from the Gulf can cause even non-severe thunderstorms to drop torrential downpours over localised areas from the central and southern Plains to parts of the Ohio Valley and Atlantic Seaboard. This could trigger urban and small stream flooding in certain cases.

Over three to four days, the cumulative rainfall is expected to peak under 6 inches in the wettest spots. There will also be breaks in the rain. Therefore, most of the rivers in the region should be able to tackle the runoff with not much impact.

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Ice hasn’t stopped trout in northern New Mexico – Alamogordo Daily News

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December 14, 2025

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Ice hasn’t stopped trout in northern New Mexico – Alamogordo Daily News

Molly Bullard, age 12, of Rio Rancho caught three 12-inch rainbow trout in less than 15 minutes using worms on Dec. 2, 2025 at the Seven Springs Kids’ Pond.

Information and photos provided by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Eli Rodarte caught a 24-inch rainbow trout using worms in the bait…

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Running hot and cold: New Mexico runners earn 17 All American awards at national XC championships

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December 14, 2025

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Running hot and cold: New Mexico runners earn 17 All American awards at national XC championships

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Gianna Chavez earns fourth in boys 8-and-under race

Ava Denton, of Albuquerque Athletics Track, competes Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 at the National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championship meet at Blue River Cross Country Course in Shelbyville, Indiana. Temperatures were in the 20s with a wind chill near zero.

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New Mexico had 17 athletes earn All American awards at the 2025 National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championship meet held Saturday at snowy Blue River Cross Country Course in Shelbyville, Indiana.

Gianni Chavez, of Albuquerque Athletics Track, earned his fourth USA Track & Field All American award with a fourth place finish in the 8-and-under boys 2K race. Chavez, an Osuna Elementary third-grader, ran his 2K race in a personal best time of 7 minutes, 44.9 seconds.

Gianni Chavez celebrates his fourth-place finish Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.

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The top 25 individual finishers and top three teams earn USATF All American awards.

The Cougar Track Club 8U girls team, based out of Albuquerque, placed second and was led by Antonette Marquez, who finished 12th. Other CTC 8U girls team members include Kimberly Reed (31st), Viola Crabbe Maple (55th), Payton Pacheco (61st), Chloe Chino (85th), Emery Grieco (113th) and Zay’a Cheromiah (149th).

Others individual All American award winners include Ava Denton, of AAT, 16th in 13/14 girls 4K; Brynlee Reed, of CTC, 22nd in 15/16 girls 5K; Sihasin Fleg, of Running Medicine, 21st in 8U girls 2K; Eden Pino, of Running Medicine, 12th in 9/10 girls 3K; Nizhoni Fleg, of Running Medicine, 14th in 17/18 girls 5K; Brady Garcia, of Running Medicine, seventh in 17/18 boys 5K; Justice Jones, of Zia, 14th in 9/10 girls 3K; Emilo Otero Soltero, of Dukes Track Club, 12th in 9/10 boys 3K; Miles Gray, unattached, 21st in 9/10 boys 3K.

Also Saturday, at the Brooks Cross Country Nationals in San Diego, Eldorado’s Gianna Rahmer placed 17th in the girls championship 5K with a time of 18:00.7 and Moriarty’s Carmen Dorsey-Spitz placed 25th 18:09.4.

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Anthony, NM man sentenced to prison, sold meth from parents’ property

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December 13, 2025

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An Anthony, New Mexico man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison for selling methamphetamine.
David Amaya, 43, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute after being caught in an FBI investigation.
Authorities found over 1,100 grams of methamphetamine and two firearms in a trailer on his parents’ property.

An Anthony, New Mexico man was sentenced to nearly two decades in federal prison for selling methamphetamine from a trailer on his parents’ property, authorities said.

A federal judge sentenced David Amaya, 43, to 19 years and seven months in prison on one count of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, New Mexico federal court records show. He was also sentenced to five years of supervised release after he serves his prison term.

U.S. District Judge Margaret I. Strickland handed down the sentence on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at the federal courthouse in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Williams prosecuted the case.

Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico Ryan Ellison and FBI Albuquerque Field Office Special Agent in Charge Justin A. Garris announced Amaya’s sentencing in a joint news release.

Amaya pleaded guilty to the charge in September as part of a plea agreement that dismissed one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, court records show.

Anthony, New Mexico man sells meth on parents’ property

FBI agents began investigating Amaya after he sold methamphetamine to a “controlled buyer” in July and August 2024, the news release states. Controlled buys are when law enforcement uses an undercover agent or a witness to purchase drugs from a suspected drug dealer.

The agents obtained a search warrant on Aug. 22, 2024, for a “specific tow-behind type trailer that Amaya was known to be living in and conducting narcotics transfers out of,” a federal complaint affidavit states. The trailer was located on property owned by Amaya’s parents in Anthony, New Mexico, the news release states.

The trailer did not have a restroom, but agents found a small makeshift bathroom structure with a porta-potty inside next to the trailer. The agents then obtained a warrant to also search the small bathroom structure.

The agents found “a large quantity of white crystalline substance suspected to be methamphetamine” throughout the trailer and bathroom structure, the affidavit states. In the bathroom, agents found a clothing hamper with “a gallon zip lock bag full of suspected methamphetamine” hidden inside.

Agents found a black Ruger .357 caliber handgun containing five rounds of .357 caliber ammunition and a black Mossberg 500 E410 gauge shotgun on the bed inside the trailer, the affidavit states. The news release states agents found “hundreds of rounds of ammunition.”

They also found about 4.42 grams of methamphetamine on the bed and another 26 grams under the bed, the affidavit states. Agents found eight more grams of methamphetamine on a nightstand.

Amaya told agents during an interview that the methamphetamine was his, he had acquired it over a period of time, and did not realize how much it was, the affidavit states. He added he “needed the guns for protection, so people would know he has them, making him safer,” the affidavit states.

In total, the agents found 1,183 grams of methamphetamine.

Aaron Martinez covers the criminal justice system for the El Paso Times. He may be reached at amartinez1@elpasotimes.com.

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