924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
With the area of high pressure still centered to the east of New Mexico, southerly flow across the area continued to allow for subtropical moisture to stream into the area.
Read the full account →July 26, 2021 was yet another active monsoon day across northern and central New Mexico. With an area of high pressure over northern Colorado, moist southeasterly flow continued across much of New Mexico which resulted in another round of numerous afternoon thunderstorms.
Read the full account →As above normal moisture remained in place across northern and central New Mexico, a very active monsoon pattern persisted with numerous thunderstorms impacting the area on July 12, 2022.
Read the full account →Another active monsoon day was in store for northern and central New Mexico on August 9, 2022. As is typical, thunderstorms first developed over the high terrain areas before becoming more widespread as the day progressed.
Read the full account →A large cluster of tropical convection along the west coast of Mexico during the final days of September 2019 organized into Tropical Storm Narda through October 1, 2019.
Read the full account →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 →An abundant amount of moisture in the atmosphere led to another very active monsoon day for northern and central New Mexico on July 29, 2022. Thunderstorms developed early in the day across the high terrain areas before becoming more widespread as the day progressed.
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 →An upper level low pressure system lifted northwest out of southern California on the 4th, setting off widespread showers and thunderstorms across New Mexico.
Read the full account →With an area of high pressure still over the Four Corners area and an abundant amount of moisture across New Mexico, it was another active day with widespread thunderstorms on July 3, 2021.
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 →An abundant amount of atmospheric moisture remained in place across New Mexico on July 1, 2021, which set the stage for another round of widespread thunderstorms across the area.
Read the full account →With an area of high pressure over the central Great Plains, drier air filtering into eastern New Mexico limited thunderstorm potential in the area for several days.
Read the full account →Another active monsoon day impacted northern New Mexico on July 8, 2022, as thunderstorms developed across the mountainous terrain by early afternoon and becoming more widespread through the evening.
Read the full account →Despite the upper-level high pressure system building over the Four Corners, a backdoor cold front moved southward through eastern and central New Mexico on August 8, 2022.
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 →With an area of high pressure centered over northeast Colorado, above normal amounts of subtropical moisture continued to stream into New Mexico on July 27, 2021.
Read the full account →An abundant amount of moisture in place over northern and central New Mexico led to another active monsoon day on August 15, 2021. With southerly flow at the surface and northerly flow aloft, shear profiles were more supportive for stronger thunderstorms and heavy rainfall.
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 →The most significant burst of monsoon moisture and instability so far in the 2016 summer season impacted New Mexico on August 5th. Deep atmospheric moisture and strong afternoon heating led to widespread showers and thunderstorms with torrential rainfall.
Read the full account →A large cluster of tropical convection along the west coast of Mexico during the final days of September 2019 organized into Tropical Storm Narda through October 1, 2019.
Read the full account →A large cluster of tropical convection along the west coast of Mexico during the final days of September 2019 organized into Tropical Storm Narda through October 1, 2019.
Read the full account →An easterly wave that drifted northwest through northern Mexico on September 12-13, 2019 moved slowly north into southern New Mexico on September 14, 2019.
Read the full account →A deep plume of monsoon moisture centered over New Mexico interacted with a surface boundary moving westward across the eastern plains on August 6, 2019.
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