924 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Mexico, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
While the high pressure centered itself over New Mexico, it was still a very active day on August 3, 2022, thanks to a backdoor front that moved through eastern New Mexico earlier in the day.
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 →As an area of high pressure remained centered to the east of New Mexico, it allowed for a healthy stream of moisture to continue to move into the western half of the state on June 18, 2022.
Read the full account →The first significant surge of monsoon moisture of the 2018 season generated numerous showers and thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall across New Mexico.
Read the full account →A saturated and unstable atmosphere over New Mexico on June 30, 2021, led to several reports of flooding and flash flooding. Moisture from Tropical Storm Enrique in the eastern Pacific streamed northward into New Mexico and warmer daytime temperatures allowed for more…
Read the full account →As an area of high pressure continued to strengthen over the Great Basin area on September 5, 2021, drier air continued to filter into the state from the north which further limited storm coverage across the area.
Read the full account →An area of high pressure reorganized over the Texas Panhandle which set up moist southerly flow across New Mexico on July 25, 2021. Above normal atmospheric moisture values helped to set the stage for scattered to numerous thunderstorms across central and western New Mexico as…
Read the full account →A storm system over southeast New Mexico combined with an abundant amount of atmospheric moisture resulted in numerous thunderstorms across eastern New Mexico on August 12, 2021.
Read the full account →An upper low over the Great Basin progressed east towards Colorado during the day Saturday. At the surface, a backdoor front pushed as far west as the Continental Divide with higher surface moisture across the Upper and Middle Rio Grande Valley and eastern New Mexico east of the…
Read the full account →With an abundant amount of moisture in the atmosphere and the high pressure centered overhead contributing to slow storm motions, an active monsoon pattern continued on August 4, 2022.
Read the full account →With an abundant amount of moisture in the atmosphere and the high pressure centered overhead contributing to slow storm motions, an active monsoon pattern continued on August 4, 2022.
Read the full account →Daytime heating combining with high moisture content underneath the monsoon high resulted in slow moving shower and thunderstorm activity each and every day first across the mountains ranges in the afternoon before spreading to surrounding lower elevations during the evening and…
Read the full account →As an area of high pressure continued to strengthen over the Great Basin area on September 5, 2021, drier air continued to filter into the state from the north which further limited storm coverage across the area.
Read the full account →A saturated and unstable atmosphere over New Mexico on June 30, 2021, led to several reports of flooding and flash flooding. Moisture from Tropical Storm Enrique in the eastern Pacific streamed northward into New Mexico and warmer daytime temperatures allowed for more…
Read the full account →With the high pressure center to the east of New Mexico, a steady plume of moisture was present across western New Mexico on June 19, 2022. With these large moisture values, it was an active monsoon day across the area with scattered to numerous thunderstorms favored areas west…
Read the full account →A backdoor cold front that moved through eastern and central New Mexico late August 28, 2020, replenished low-level moisture across the plains.
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 →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 →Monsoon moisture firmly in place over New Mexico focused another round of very heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms. Storms with torrential rainfall and strong winds erupted over the state.
Read the full account →An upper level wave crossed over the Four Corners region and focused isolated severe thunderstorms over San Juan County during the evening of the 26th.
Read the full account →A traditional monsoon moisture plume over the state set the stage for showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall on the 22nd. A broken line of thunderstorms developed along the Continental Divide and marched eastward toward the Rio Grande Valley during the late afternoon.
Read the full account →A disturbance crossing New Mexico on July 14, 2021, brought ample moisture, instability, and lift to allow for an uptick in storm coverage across northern and central New Mexico.
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.
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