924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
The upper-level high pressure system was located over the Great Basin area on August 16, 2022, while a backdoor front moved into eastern New Mexico before stalling along the east slopes of the central mountain chain.
Read the full account →Moisture values continued to be on the rise across northern and central New Mexico on July 20, 2022, and this led to a very active monsoon day for the area. Scattered to numerous thunderstorms were common across much of the area, particularly across the mountainous terrain.
Read the full account →An active moonsoon pattern continued across New Mexico on July 25, 2022, as a steady stream of moisture stayed in place over western and central New Mexico.
Read the full account →Intense daytime heating combined with modest atmospheric moisture resulted in the development of showers and thunderstorms across the central mountain chain during the afternoon hours.
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 that was over the state the earlier in the week, moved west over western Arizona and southern California on July 10th in response to an upper level trough moving across the northern and central Rockies.
Read the full account →A new multi-day plume of monsoon moisture advected northward into New Mexico between an upper level trough over the southern Baja Peninsula and an upper high over the south-central CONUS.
Read the full account →A backdoor front moved into eastern NM on October 6th. This front along with southeast return flow resulted in some isolated strong to severe storms across east central NM during the evening hours with one storm producing nickel size hail near Puerto de Luna.
Read the full account →A troughing pattern from the Pacific brought in a late season monsoon burst of moisture to the Desert Southwest. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over portions of the state with more locally heavy rainfall events occurring from the abundant monsoon moisture.
Read the full account →A troughing pattern from the Pacific brought in a late season monsoon burst of moisture to the Desert Southwest. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over portions of the state with more locally heavy rainfall events occurring from the abundant monsoon moisture.
Read the full account →The monsoon high over northern Arizona on July 19th continued backing west to over the Great Basin July 20th and 21st in response to upper level troughing over the central U.S. The upper level trough over the central U.S.
Read the full account →A shortwave trough moved south from Colorado over New Mexico on September 5th. This combined with upslope surface flow from a backdoor front resulted in the development of showers and storms over the northern mountains moving south and east across lower elevations during the…
Read the full account →An otherwise benign day of isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms across New Mexico was disrupted by life threatening flash flooding over far southeastern Rio Arriba County.
Read the full account →An easterly wave was located just south of El Paso, Texas on August 17, 2022. Associated with this wave was an above normal amount of moisture that produced persistent shower activity across southern New Mexico.
Read the full account →A very active month of July continued on July 28, 2022 across northern and central New Mexico as numerous showers and thunderstorms impacted the area. With an abundant amount of moisture still in place, these thunderstorms were very capable of producing heavy rain.
Read the full account →As an area of high pressure remained to the east of New Mexico, an abundant amount of moisture also stayed in place across the desert southwest on July 27, 2022. This led to yet another very active monsoon day across much of northern and central New Mexico.
Read the full account →Despite an early onset to the year's monsoon season and significant June rainfall totals, flash flooding and debris flow had not been reported across the largest burn scar in New Mexico likely thanks to steady, stratiform rain that had been occurring since mid-June.
Read the full account →A persistent pattern continued on June 30, 2022, as an area of high pressure to the east of New Mexico allowed for a deep moisture plume across the area.
Read the full account →A persistent pattern continued on June 30, 2022, as an area of high pressure to the east of New Mexico allowed for a deep moisture plume across the area.
Read the full account →As the upper-level high pressure built over the Great Plains on August 12, 2022, much drier air pushed into eastern and central New Mexico. This led to a downtrend in thunderstorm coverage across much of the area while the monsoonal moisture plume focued across western New…
Read the full account →Atmospheric moisture values remained high across southern and eastern New Mexico on September 4, 2021, which led to another active monsoon day across the area.
Read the full account →A slow-moving low pressure system continued to track westward across southern New Mexico on July 23, 2021, as an area of high pressure remained centered over the Four Corners.
Read the full account →With above normal atmospheric moisture values in place across northern and central New Mexico, it was another active monsoon day on July 21, 2021.
Read the full account →A storm system that had stalled over southeastern New Mexico for a couple days remained in place again on August 14, 2021. An abundant amount of moisture was also in place across eastern New Mexico with atmospheric moisture values well above normal.
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