924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A slow-moving low pressure system continued to track westward across southern New Mexico on July 23, 2021, as an area of high pressure remained centered over the Four Corners.
Read the full account →With an area of high pressure over the central Great Plains, drier air filtering into eastern New Mexico limited thunderstorm potential in the area for several days.
Read the full account →An abundant amount of moisture in place over northern and central New Mexico led to another active monsoon day on August 15, 2021. With southerly flow at the surface and northerly flow aloft, shear profiles were more supportive for stronger thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →The end of July continued to be busy for meteorologists at the Albuquerque National Weather Service Office as numerous thunderstorms impacted the area on July 30, 2022.
Read the full account →A deep tap of monsoon moisture continued surging north into New Mexico on July 24, 2020, setting the stage for additional showers and thunderstorms with torrential rainfall, localized flash flooding, and strong microburst winds.
Read the full account →A continued very moist pattern remained across the Borderland and brought a third day of heavy rain to the La Union area which over the course of 3 days received over 7 inches of rainfall.
Read the full account →It was another active monsoon day across northern and central New Mexico on July 20, 2021. With an area of high pressure centered over the Four Corners and high amounts of atmospheric moisture across western and central New Mexico, thunderstorms developed by late morning across…
Read the full account →Despite the high pressure centered more over western New Mexico, an abundant amount of moisture still resided within the atmosphere. This led to scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms across much of the central and western New Mexico, some of which produced very heavy…
Read the full account →The end of July continued to be busy for meteorologists at the Albuquerque National Weather Service Office as numerous thunderstorms impacted the area on July 30, 2022.
Read the full account →The end of July continued to be busy for meteorologists at the Albuquerque National Weather Service Office as numerous thunderstorms impacted the area on July 30, 2022.
Read the full account →The center of upper level high pressure that was centered over the Permian Basin for several days drifted west into southern New Mexico on the 18th.
Read the full account →As above normal moisture remained in place across northern and central New Mexico, a very active monsoon pattern persisted with numerous thunderstorms impacting the area on July 12, 2022.
Read the full account →As above normal moisture remained in place across northern and central New Mexico, a very active monsoon pattern persisted with numerous thunderstorms impacting the area on July 12, 2022.
Read the full account →A deep plume of monsoon moisture centered over New Mexico interacted with a surface boundary moving westward across the eastern plains on August 6, 2019.
Read the full account →Abundant moisture and instability in place over eastern New Mexico on August 8, 2019 led to isolated slow-moving showers and thunderstorms. Most of these storms produced heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and small hail.
Read the full account →A back door cold front that shifted southwest through eastern New Mexico on the 25th provided a reinforcing blast of low level moisture for the Rio Grande Valley on the 26th.
Read the full account →Northwest flow aloft over eastern New Mexico combined with abundant moisture and strong instability to generate a second day of scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →An otherwise benign day of isolated showers and thunderstorms across New Mexico was still able to produce localized heavy rainfall. An area of thunderstorms that developed over the Jemez Mountains moved southward through Sandoval County through 6 pm on the 10th.
Read the full account →With an abundant amount of moisture across northern and central New Mexico, the Fourth of July holiday was a busy one across the area. Numerous thunderstorms impacted the area, some of which produced locally heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Abundant moisture in place over the area on deep southeasterly flow interacted with a strong upper level low pressure system that dropped south out of Colorado. The richest atmospheric moisture available for the entire summer period was present over the area.
Read the full account →Deeper moisture continued spreading into New Mexico as the center of upper level high pressure over the Four Corners region weakened further on July 19, 2020.
Read the full account →A backdoor cold front that moved into eastern New Mexico recharged moisture over the region on August 5, 2020. Thunderstorm coverage increased over the area however most activity was light across the western half of the state.
Read the full account →A second tap of abundant moisture in association with the remnants of Tropical Storm Narda moved northeast across western Mexico into the desert southwest on October 3, 2019.
Read the full account →A deep plume of monsoon moisture centered over New Mexico interacted with a surface boundary moving westward across the eastern plains on August 6, 2019.
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