924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Several consecutive days of significant severe weather impacted eastern New Mexico from May 24-26, 2023. Showers and thunderstorms developed along the dryline and east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on May 23rd.
Read the full account →Near-record to record level moisture over parts of the region allowed for scattered to numerous storms to develop over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on May 18, 2023.
Read the full account →Several consecutive days of significant severe weather impacted eastern New Mexico from May 24-26, 2023. Showers and thunderstorms developed along the dryline and east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on May 23rd.
Read the full account →Several consecutive days of significant severe weather impacted eastern New Mexico from May 24-26, 2023. Showers and thunderstorms developed along the dryline and east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on May 23rd.
Read the full account →Several consecutive days of significant severe weather impacted eastern New Mexico from May 24-26, 2023. Showers and thunderstorms developed along the dryline and east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on May 23rd.
Read the full account →Abundant monsoon moisture surged into NM allowing for storms producing heavy rainfall and severe winds over portions of northeastern NM. Severe winds near Clayton, NM caused some damage on August 12th.
Read the full account →Abundant monsoon moisture surged into NM allowing for storms producing heavy rainfall and severe winds over portions of northeastern NM. Severe winds near Clayton, NM caused some damage on August 12th.
Read the full account →Northwest flow rounding the northeastern periphery of an upper high over AZ combined with abundant low-level moisture over the high plains of eastern NM to produce severe weather along and east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on July 21st and 22nd.
Read the full account →Northwest flow rounding the northeastern periphery of an upper high over AZ combined with abundant low-level moisture over the high plains of eastern NM to produce severe weather along and east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on July 21st and 22nd.
Read the full account →An upper-level low off the coast of California helped funnel in subtropical moisture into the state resulting in the development of widespread showers and storms across central and eastern New Mexico June 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →Higher low-level moisture on July 13th and a backdoor cold front replenishing this moisture for July 14th and 15th combined with robust upper level wind shear produced three days of severe weather across eastern NM.
Read the full account →An upper-level low off the coast of California helped funnel in subtropical moisture into the state resulting in the development of widespread showers and storms across central and eastern New Mexico June 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →An upper-level low off the coast of California helped funnel in subtropical moisture into the state resulting in the development of widespread showers and storms across central and eastern New Mexico June 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →An upper-level low off the coast of California helped funnel in subtropical moisture into the state resulting in the development of widespread showers and storms across central and eastern New Mexico June 5th and 6th.
Read the full account →Northwest flow rounding the northeastern periphery of an upper high over AZ combined with abundant low-level moisture over the high plains of eastern NM to produce severe weather along and east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on July 21st and 22nd.
Read the full account →Northwest flow rounding the northeastern periphery of an upper high over AZ combined with abundant low-level moisture over the high plains of eastern NM to produce severe weather along and east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on July 21st and 22nd.
Read the full account →A weak upper level disturbance passed over northern NM helping to invigorate another round of afternoon thunderstorms along and east of the central mountain chain of NM.
Read the full account →A backdoor front brought moist easterly upslope flow into northeastern NM on June 11th and June 12th. Discrete supercells fired up along the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains during the early afternoon hours of June 11th dropping large to destructive hail as they…
Read the full account →Southeast surface flow was tapping Gulf moisture while a weak trough over Southern California helped to draw up Baja moisture aloft. This created a very moist atmosphere with slow storm motion which produced flash flooding at Leasburg Dam State Park and around La Union.
Read the full account →A back door cold front squeezed through the central mountain passes and canyons into the Rio Grande Valley early in the morning, increasing low level moisture and setting up a surface boundary nearby.
Read the full account →A large cluster of thunderstorms dropped 3 to 5 inches of rain on much of the triangle between Las Cruces, Hatch and Deming, which is an unusually large area for such rainfall amounts in the desert southwest.
Read the full account →In summary, flash flooding became widespread across southeastern New Mexico on Sunday the 26th and persisted into Monday the 27th. Doppler radar estimated three day rainfall totals exceeding eleven inches across portions of Lea County by late Monday.
Read the full account →Heavy rains fell across the Four Corners region of northwest San Juan County and southwest Colorado throughout the morning with strong runoff moving south into New Mexico along the La Plata River.
Read the full account →A plume of monsoonal moisture flowed northward into New Mexico on August 26th, providing ample fuel for afternoon showers and storms to develop along the Sacramento Mountains and Ruidoso.
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