Alert archive / New Mexico / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2023
39 flood watches 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 39
- Busiest month
- August15 flood watches
- Busiest day
- September 13, 20232 flood watches
Over time
By month
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, 3:58 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 14 hr |
| May 19, 4:00 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 17 hr |
| May 21, 2:48 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 18 hr |
| May 26, 3:51 PM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel | 32 hr |
| May 30, 1:38 PM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 7 more | 55 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:36 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 18 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:36 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Jun 4, 8:54 PM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 24 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:48 PM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 27 hr |
| Jun 7, 1:33 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:49 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 9 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:22 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 15 hr |
| Jul 20, 10:00 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 38 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:47 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Jul 30, 2:33 PM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Lincoln | 24 hr |
| Aug 1, 1:41 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:35 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Lincoln | 19 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:56 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Lincoln | 11 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:44 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Lincoln | 16 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:37 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 16 hr |
| Aug 13, 1:31 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 24 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:52 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:27 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 16, 1:41 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 18 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Catron, Lincoln, Socorro | 25 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:45 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Lincoln | 18 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:10 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:56 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 18 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:15 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:08 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 18 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:27 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel and 2 more | 22 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:02 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 10 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:14 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 16 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:58 AM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Otero, Sierra | 17 hr |
| Sep 14, 2:53 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 24 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:59 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 18 hr |
| Sep 28, 12:35 PM MDT | Flood Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra | 58 hr |
| Sep 30, 1:29 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel | 29 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 46 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- San Miguel County30
- Colfax County29
- Mora County29
- Rio Arriba County27
- Santa Fe County27
- Taos County27
- Lincoln County20
- Los Alamos County8
- Sandoval County8
- Curry County3
- Harding County3
- Quay County3
- Roosevelt County3
- Union County2
- Otero County2
- Sierra County2
- De Baca County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Catron County1
- Socorro 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.