El Paso Heavy Rain Events

Winter Returns Across the Northern Tier; Record Warmth for the Southwest

A large high pressure system will usher in cold air for this first day of March across the northern Plains, Great Lakes, Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Some wintry precipitation may evolve across the mid-Mississippi Valley, Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic through Monday. Meanwhile, record warmth will spread across the Southwest, southern Plains through early this week. Read More >

All time heavy rainfall events for El Paso

6.50 inches July 9, 1881

1. 3.52 inches July31-August 1, 2006
2. 3.32 inches July 21-22, 1880
3. 2.97 inches September 16-18, 2014
4. 2.89 inches August 11-12 2005
5. 2.75 inches June 30-July 1, 1897
6. 2.63 inches July 5-6, 1968
7. 2.52 inches September 10-11, 1958
8. 2.45 inches August 22, 1906
9. 2.44 inches September 21-22, 1974
10 .2.40 inches May 17-18, 1992
11. 2.31 inches August 25-26, 1884
12. 2.30 inches August 8-9, 1984
13. 2.21 inches September 20-21, 1982
14. 2.15 inches September 21-22, 1941
15. 2.08 inches June 27-28, 2021
16. 2.07 inches May 20-21, 1895
17. 2.07 inches September 18-19, 1883
18. 2.07 inches September 28-29, 1932
19. 2.06 inches July 16-17, 1914
20 2.01 inches September 11-12, 1975
21. 2.00 inches August 29, 1878
22. 2.00 inches August 31, 1957
23. 1.95 inches August 13-14, 2004
24. 1.90 inches September 12, 2013
25. 1.86 inches September 17, 2014
26. 1.85 inches June 28, 2009
27. 1.79 inches September 11-12, 1964
28. 1.77 inches October 8-9, 1945
29. 1.77 inches August 25-26, 1972
30. 1.77 inches July 26 2008

Monthly extreme, 8.18 inches in July 1881

Hourly extreme, 2.18 inches on Sept. 20, 1982