924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A nearly stationary storm over Arizona provided an extended period of deep moisture with widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms. A few of the heavier showers and thunderstorms produced heavy rain.
Read the full account →A terrain based afternoon thunderstorm developed over the McBride burn scar in the Sacramento Mountains near Ruidoso on July 9th. The slow movement of the storm allowed for a period of heavy rainfall over the burn scar to occur.
Read the full account →Monsoonal moisture remained over the region with a low level convergent area setting up near the New Mexico/Arizona border region. A strong thunderstorm developed over the Lordsburg Playa and produced heavy rain and areas of blowing dust reducing visibilities to under a quarter…
Read the full account →The tail end of an upper level trough moving through the Upper Midwest was affecting the Sacramento Mountains. Modest moisture at the low levels added to the instability across the area which resulted in strong thunderstorms with a lot of hail and flash flooding in the…
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Dolly moved northwestward into far west Texas, moving directly over west El Paso, then curved north and northeastward into Otero County New Mexico. Moisture from this system spread over most of southern New Mexico and lingered another 36 hours.
Read the full account →An intense thunderstorm complex that developed southeast of the Farmington area shortly before 7 pm MST moved northwest into the Four Corners region through 9 pm MST.
Read the full account →A complex of strong to severe thunderstorms moved south across Lea County during the late afternoon and early evening of the 24th. These storms produced large hail up to the size of quarters and flash flooding. Hail covered the ground near Lovington and Eunice.
Read the full account →An upper level trough spread abundant subtropical moisture into much of southern New Mexico. Since snow levels were high (above 8000 feet), the result was up to two inches of rain on an existing snowpack.
Read the full account →An upper ridge was over northern Mexico, and abundant moisture was over the area from southeast low level winds. A surface boundary was present across the Permian Basin with upper level disturbances passing nearby which provided lift.
Read the full account →A weak upper disturbance moved slowly southward over southern New Mexico and far west Texas within a moist, unstable air mass. An approaching jet streak from the west along with low level easterly flow provided favorable vertical wind shear and sufficient lift for a severe…
Read the full account →As an upper level trough crossed the northern Rocky Mountains, moisture surged northward across New Mexico. Initially, a severe storm with hail and very heavy rain formed over the Sacramento Mountains.
Read the full account →A broad ridge of high pressure aloft stretched from west Texas into much of New Mexico and resulted in weak steering flow. An isolated strong thunderstorm developed over the Little Bear burn scar near Ruidoso at midday and then into a line with embedded storms from north to…
Read the full account →A slow-moving upper-level low pressure over a stationary frontal boundary helped to generate widespread showers and thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →A slow-moving upper-level low pressure over a stationary frontal boundary helped to generate widespread showers and thunderstorms across the region.
Read the full account →An upper high continued to sit over Arizona while another elongated trough moved into the Great Lakes but extended all the way down into southern New Mexico.
Read the full account →An upper high continued to sit over Arizona while another elongated trough moved into the Great Lakes but extended all the way down into southern New Mexico.
Read the full account →An upper high continued to sit over Arizona while another elongated trough moved into the Great Lakes but extended all the way down into southern New Mexico.
Read the full account →Abundant moisture streaming into eastern New Mexico from the Gulf Coast and northern Mexico interacted with a weak shortwave trough approaching from the west to produce scattered showers and thunderstorms over the region on July 4, 2020.
Read the full account →The richest plume of monsoon moisture of the entire season set up over New Mexico on the weekend of July 25-26, 2020. The center of upper level high pressure drifted west into the state from west Texas while a weak upper level disturbance moved slowly north from eastern Arizona.
Read the full account →Two separate lines of thunderstorms formed over eastern New Mexico and then merged into a complex that produced very heavy rain, brief hail and strong wet microbursts over Quay County. One line of storms began at mid-afternoon from Raton to Las Vegas.
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 →Deep monsoon moisture produced thunderstorms with heavy rain over much of New Mexico. A couple of storms dumped heavy rain over the Magdalena Observatory and the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, resulting in the dirt road leading to the facilities being washed out.
Read the full account →An anomalous late-season severe weather setup developed across the southern Great Plains during the start of October. A large slow-moving trough across the Four Corners combined with very rich low-level moisture to produce widespread severe weather and localized flash flooding,…
Read the full account →An anomalous late-season severe weather setup developed across the southern Great Plains during the start of October. A large slow-moving trough across the Four Corners combined with very rich low-level moisture to produce widespread severe weather and localized flash flooding,…
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