924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An area of low pressure was over New Mexico and helped to bring lift and monsoonal moisture into Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. Along with abundant moisture and lift, instability was also in place.
Read the full account →The remains of Tropical Storm Odile were moving across the region as they rotated around the circulation of an upper ridge. A circulation was also located over the central Permian Basin which was allowing rain to move across the same areas.
Read the full account →A persistent area of torrential rainfall over the headwaters of Santa Clara Canyon produced a significant flash flood wave on Santa Clara Creek. Rainfall rates with this storm approached 6 inches per hour leading to storm total amounts near 3 inches.
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 →An upper level disturbance pushed southeast across northern New Mexico and interacted with a stationary frontal boundary in the Rio Grande Valley.
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 strong upper level disturbance combined with a strengthening low level jet over eastern New Mexico generated numerous strong to severe thunderstorms across the plains during the late evening hours of the 22nd into the morning of the 23rd.
Read the full account →An upper level high east of the state and a surface backdoor cold front drew abundant moisture into northern and central New Mexico through the end of the 28th.
Read the full account →The center of upper level high pressure drifted west over Texas, forcing the monsoon moisture plume more into western New Mexico. The combination of afternoon heating and mountainous terrain interacted with all the moisture in place to produce numerous thunderstorms.
Read the full account →An unseasonably strong upper level storm system that slowly moved east from southern California produced scattered showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall over New Mexico.
Read the full account →Abundant moisture in place across New Mexico with weak steering flow provided the necessary ingredients for locally heavy rainfall. A series of thunderstorms with moderate rainfall drifted southwest across the Ute Park burn scar and produced the most significant flash flooding…
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 →Upper level high pressure that had dominated the weather pattern several days prior shifted to the west. The monsoonal moisture plume shifted slightly to the northeast with general storm motions of 10 to 15 mph.
Read the full account →The slow-moving upper level storm responsible for severe weather over New Mexico on the 22nd continued to impact the area on the 23rd. Showers and thunderstorms developed over the high plains and moved east as a squall line through the early morning hours on the 24th.
Read the full account →There was an upper ridge over the southwest part of the country with a cold front that moved into West Texas and southeast New Mexico during the late afternoon and evening hours.
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 →The remnants of Tropical Storm Odile and an associated mid-level circulation were still over the region. The airmass was very moist, and lift was enhanced by upslope low-level winds across southeast New Mexico and the higher terrain of West Texas.
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 →For the second day in a row, the southern portions of the Las Conchas burn scar was inundated with heavy rains as weak disturbances continued to round the western periphery of the upper high.
Read the full account →Strong thunderstorms developed over the southern Sacramento Mountains and along the eastern heights of Alamogordo. One storm in particular dropped about an inch and a half of rain in 40 minutes over Marble Canyon , which drains into eastern Alamogordo.
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