924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
An active and persistent pattern maintained a heightened threat for flash flooding across much of the state. An upper level high was centered over portions of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
Read the full account →A potent back door cold front that shifted west across eastern New Mexico early on the 8th plowed through the Rio Grande Valley and became stationary along the Continental Divide.
Read the full account →High pressure aloft was positioned over western areas of the state, elongated from Nevada to Mexico. Remnant monsoonal moisture as well as warming daytime temperatures allowed for the development of showers and thunderstorms throughout the late afternoon into the evening.
Read the full account →An upper level impulse moving very slowly northeast over New Mexico after multiple days of heavy rainfall produced areas of flash flooding yet again. A wave of heavy rainfall early in the day over Chaves County produced flash flooding along U.S. 285 north of Roswell.
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 →An upper level low and trailing trough extending from Nevada into Arizona and western NM allowed for numerous storms to develop. Storms moved slowly from south to north and trained over the same areas.
Read the full account →Strong and slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rains of 2 to 3 inches in less than an hour across southern Sandoval County. A bridge of large culverts over Las Huertas Creek was washed out stranding residents in Placitas.
Read the full account →A deeply saturated atmosphere and weak steering flow over New Mexico set the stage for slow-moving heavy thunderstorms with torrential rainfall. Rainfall rates approached 2 inches per hour in some areas.
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 →An upper level disturbance interacted with a stationary frontal boundary over eastern New Mexico to produce widespread showers and thunderstorms.
Read the full account →A backdoor front pushed through northeast NM during the morning hours of April 25th stalling across east central NM midday. Additionally, a dryline backed west into the southeast plains of New Mexico. These surface boundaries allowed higher low level Gulf moisture.
Read the full account →A backdoor front pushed through northeast NM during the morning hours of April 25th stalling across east central NM midday. Additionally, a dryline backed west into the southeast plains of New Mexico. These surface boundaries allowed higher low level Gulf moisture.
Read the full account →A backdoor front pushed through northeast NM during the morning hours of April 25th stalling across east central NM midday. Additionally, a dryline backed west into the southeast plains of New Mexico. These surface boundaries allowed higher low level Gulf moisture.
Read the full account →A disturbance in the quasi-zonal/northwesterly flow aloft, a dryline, and a cold front moving across the northern Permian Basin allowed for the development of scattered thunderstorms across Southeast New Mexico and West Texas.
Read the full account →An upper low moved across the desert southwest June 1st into June 2nd helping to pull up higher moisture from former Tropical Storm Alvin in the eastern Pacific.
Read the full account →Daytime heating combined with higher moisture east of a dryline and upper level northwest flow across the northern and central Rockies and Great Plains resulted in the development of severe storms with large hail across Colfax, Union and far northeast Harding Counties during the…
Read the full account →An upper low moved across the desert southwest June 1st into June 2nd helping to pull up higher moisture from former Tropical Storm Alvin in the eastern Pacific.
Read the full account →The monsoon high was centered across southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico on August 1st and 2nd. Northwest flow around the upper high circulation along with embedded disturbances in this flow resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms across parts of central…
Read the full account →The monsoon high was centered across southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico on August 1st and 2nd. Northwest flow around the upper high circulation along with embedded disturbances in this flow resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms across parts of central…
Read the full account →Abundant moisture pushed up to the east slopes of the central mountain chain of New Mexico. Combined with daytime heating, this initiated severe thunderstorms along the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains southward along the central highlands.
Read the full account →Monsoon Moisture across central and eastern New Mexico along with a backdoor front entering northeast NM resulted in the development of scattered shower and thunderstorm activity across these portions of the state.
Read the full account →Monsoon Moisture across central and eastern New Mexico along with a backdoor front entering northeast NM resulted in the development of scattered shower and thunderstorm activity across these portions of the state.
Read the full account →Higher moisture moved into eastern and central New Mexico behind a backdoor front resulting in a greater coverage of showers and thunderstorms across the middle Rio Grande Valley, central mountain chain, and northeast New Mexico.
Read the full account →A backdoor front pushing south through eastern New Mexico resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms across this part of the state during the evening and overnight hours on August 30th into August 31st.
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