924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Modest low and mid level southeast flow kept some monsoon moisture around the Sacramento Mountains. Very weak flow aloft kept storms moving slowly allowing for heavy rain to fall over the Soldier Canyon Burn Scar.
Read the full account →A powerful back door cold front surged southwest across the eastern plains during the afternoon of the 14th then plowed west through the Rio Grande Valley.
Read the full account →Isolated thunderstorms developed just north of the Whitewater-Baldy burn scar during the early afternoon and within an hour, isolated strong thunderstorms were directly over the burn scar that caused flooding in local creeks.
Read the full account →Isolated thunderstorms developed just north of the Whitewater-Baldy burn scar during the early afternoon and within an hour, isolated strong thunderstorms were directly over the burn scar that caused flooding in local creeks.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms moved slowly over portions of northern and eastern New Mexico during the afternoon and evening of the 1st. The strongest of these storms rolled through the Santa Rosa area, dropping quarter size hail and producing damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph…
Read the full account →Widespread slow-moving heavy thunderstorms that moved eastward across the eastern plains very early on the morning of the 2nd produced torrential rainfall from De Baca County eastward into Curry and Roosevelt counties.
Read the full account →Isolated thunderstorms developed just north of the Whitewater-Baldy burn scar during the early afternoon and within an hour, isolated strong thunderstorms were directly over the burn scar that caused flooding in local creeks.
Read the full account →A stationary upper level low pressure system that settled into the Great Basin around the 10th provided a steady stream of near record subtropical atmospheric moisture over New Mexico.
Read the full account →A stationary upper level low pressure system that settled into the Great Basin around the 10th provided a steady stream of near record subtropical atmospheric moisture over New Mexico.
Read the full account →A stationary upper level low pressure system that settled into the Great Basin around the 10th provided a steady stream of near record subtropical atmospheric moisture over New Mexico.
Read the full account →A deep tap of monsoon moisture finally surged north across New Mexico and delivered the first significant round of heavy rainfall in several weeks.
Read the full account →A slow-moving upper level low pressure over the Four Corners region and persistent, moist, low level easterly flow over New Mexico created an active weather pattern over the region for several days.
Read the full account →A rich plume of moisture in place over eastern New Mexico on July 21, 2019 allowed widespread showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall to impact much of the area through July 22, 2019.
Read the full account →A stationary upper level low pressure system that settled into the Great Basin around the 10th provided a steady stream of near record subtropical atmospheric moisture over New Mexico.
Read the full account →The first significant surge of monsoon moisture of the 2018 season generated numerous showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall across New Mexico.
Read the full account →Near record levels of moisture across New Mexico along with weak steering flow and strong afternoon heating led to the development of showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Deep atmospheric moisture in place across eastern New Mexico interacted with an upper level disturbance drifting eastward across the state. A large area of showers and thunderstorms that developed along the Interstate 40 corridor during the evening hours of the 5th drifted…
Read the full account →The center of upper level high pressure drifted into New Mexico on August 2nd and led to very slow-moving thunderstorms with torrential rainfall. The area around the Sangre de Cristo Mountains was the hardest hit with flooding.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms developed during the early afternoon hours across much of the high terrain of central New Mexico. This activity moved slowly west and congealed into a large complex of heavy rainfall within the Rio Grande Valley between Kewa Pueblo, Algodones, and…
Read the full account →Just after midnight on the morning of the 16th, a line of strong storms crossed south eastward across Interstate 40 near Santa Rosa. This storm produced two lightning strikes that hit a rest area and gas station causing power failures.
Read the full account →A storm with heavy rain of 1 to 2 inches in an hour developed over Pueblo Canyon on the west edge of Los Alamos. Storm runoff from the burnt forest was brief, but intense with water and mud flows estimated at 1500 CFS which overwhelmed the inlet structure west of North Road and…
Read the full account →Following heavy rains the previous day or two for many areas of northern and central New Mexico, another round of slow-moving thunderstorms dumped heavy rainfall over central and eastern New Mexico during the afternoon and evening of the 30th.
Read the full account →Isolated thunderstorms developed along the high terrain of central New Mexico by mid to late afternoon on the 10th. Weak west to southwest steering flows forced this activity into the Rio Grande Valley between 4 and 5pm.
Read the full account →A prolonged period of moderate to locally heavy rainfall associated with the remnant moisture from Hurricane Odile impacted much of southern and eastern New Mexico between the 17th and 20th.
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