Flood Watches in New Mexico
301 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 301
- Busiest year
- 202581 flood watches
- Average year
- 25over 12 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.
- Lincoln County148
- San Miguel County144
- Colfax County140
- Mora County140
- Rio Arriba County140
- Santa Fe County139
- Taos County137
- Sandoval County79
- Socorro County72
- Catron County64
- Los Alamos County60
- Otero County53
- Bernalillo County43
- Cibola County41
- Valencia County41
- McKinley County39
- Torrance County38
- Sierra County31
- Grant County30
- San Juan County28
- Union County28
- Guadalupe County27
- Luna County26
- Hidalgo County25
- Chaves County22
- Harding County22
- Quay County21
- Eddy County19
- Lea County17
- Curry County17
- De Baca County17
- Doña Ana County14
- Roosevelt County14
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 9:09 PM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 57 hr |
| Sep 21, 10:08 AM MDT | Flood Watch | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 4 days |
| Sep 21, 1:02 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 19 more | 4 days |
| Sep 20, 11:18 PM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 46 hr |
| Sep 18, 6:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Otero | 18 hr |
| Sep 18, 3:05 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Lincoln, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 4 more | 21 hr |
| Sep 17, 4:48 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 25 hr |
| Sep 17, 2:24 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley and 10 more | 25 hr |
| Sep 15, 11:07 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, McKinley and 9 more | 43 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:59 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 43 hr |
| Sep 15, 1:01 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Catron, Socorro | 23 hr |
| Sep 14, 10:14 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra | 68 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.