Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico
353 flash flood watches since 1986. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 353
- Busiest year
- 202144 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 19over 19 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Eddy County67
- Lea County62
- Grant County48
- Luna County47
- Otero County46
- Sierra County43
- Hidalgo County41
- Doña Ana County33
- Socorro County29
- Catron County28
- San Miguel County27
- Lincoln County26
- Santa Fe County26
- Rio Arriba County24
- Valencia County24
- Colfax County23
- Mora County23
- Taos County22
- Torrance County22
- Cibola County21
- Sandoval County21
- Bernalillo County20
- McKinley County20
- Los Alamos County16
- Chaves County15
- Guadalupe County12
- De Baca County10
- Union County9
- San Juan County9
- Curry County8
- Harding County8
- Quay County8
- Roosevelt County8
The latest flash flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 11:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana | 12 hr |
Nearby
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. Rebuilt daily.