Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2023
153 flash flood warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 153
- Busiest month
- May42 flash flood warnings
- Busiest day
- May 27, 202312 flash flood warnings
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
24 of 153 flash flood warnings covering New Mexico in 2023 had a flash flood report inside them; 43 of 71 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 68 minutes after it went out.
New Mexico, 2023
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash flood warnings | 153 | 24 | 84% | 71 | 61% | 68 min |
Each office's whole area, 2023
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS El Paso, TX: flash flood warnings | 13 | 2 | 85% | 7 | 57% | 42 min |
| NWS Midland/Odessa, TX: flash flood warnings | 88 | 22 | 75% | 38 | 71% | 63 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings | 128 | 19 | 85% | 62 | 60% | 67 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| May 19, 3:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Cibola | 3 hr |
| May 20, 1:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| May 20, 5:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| May 20, 7:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 21, 3:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| May 21, 4:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, San Juan | 3 hr |
| May 22, 12:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| May 24, 1:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 4 hr |
| May 24, 2:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 24, 2:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 24, 6:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay | 3 hr |
| May 24, 8:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 24, 9:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 25, 12:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 4 hr |
| May 25, 9:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 25, 10:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 25, 10:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 26, 12:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 2 hr |
| May 26, 1:28 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:54 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Torrance | 118 min |
| May 26, 5:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 3 hr |
| May 26, 6:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry | 2 hr |
| May 26, 8:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 4 hr |
| May 26, 10:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| May 26, 11:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay | 2 hr |
| May 27, 12:03 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 27, 12:26 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 27, 12:28 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| May 27, 12:44 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 27, 4:29 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 3 hr |
| May 27, 1:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 27, 2:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| May 27, 8:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| May 27, 11:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 31, 3:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Roosevelt | 109 min |
| May 31, 5:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 111 min |
| May 31, 7:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
| May 31, 11:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:28 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 12:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 12:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 11:42 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 11:35 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 1:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:34 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 5:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron, Socorro | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe | 4 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 7:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Torrance | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 1:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 8:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:02 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:34 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 12:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:53 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 1:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 109 min |
| Jul 12, 3:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 1:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 8:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 114 min |
| Jul 21, 3:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 12:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 12:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 11:46 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:22 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 5:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Hidalgo | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 11:43 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Aug 13, 6:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 8:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 112 min |
| Aug 14, 9:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant, Sierra | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 7:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 5 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 12:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 12:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 71 min |
| Aug 25, 5:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Sierra | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 4 hr |
| Aug 26, 1:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 1:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:58 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 5:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 4 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Otero | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 4:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 1:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 2:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 5:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Valencia | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 12:32 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 5:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 5:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 4 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 6 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Oct 1, 5:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 12:59 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 2:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 2:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 2:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 3:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 5:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 5:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | EPZ | Grant | 96 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- San Miguel County52
- Mora County35
- Taos County25
- Quay County19
- Roosevelt County14
- Curry County13
- Lincoln County10
- Sandoval County8
- Union County8
- Eddy County8
- Colfax County7
- Otero County6
- Lea County5
- Bernalillo County4
- De Baca County4
- Guadalupe County4
- Harding County3
- Chaves County3
- Grant County3
- Sierra County3
- Torrance County2
- Cibola County1
- Rio Arriba County1
- San Juan County1
- Catron County1
- Socorro County1
- Santa Fe County1
- Hidalgo County1
- Valencia County1
- Doña Ana County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.