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High Plains flash flood

High Plains Flash Flood Damage Map, Oct 24-25, 2026

High Plains flash flood has 42 local storm reports in the storm area. Flood and heavy rain are shown. Social posts are hand-picked.

2026 · Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026. Local storm reports in the storm area.

How to read this. Each dot is a local storm report: a flood or heavy rain. A shaded area is an active flash flood warning. Open a dot for the place, the time in Eastern Time, and what was reported. The map opens on the reports. The boxes show or hide each kind on the map and in the list. A hollow pin is a hand-picked post from that town. When several posts are from the same town, the pin lists every one of them. It is not a full list of social media.

The technical details

Local storm reports come from the National Weather Service LSR feed as republished by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, at mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/geojson/lsr.geojson. The request uses the event dates, from 6 hours before the start through 36 hours after the end, and the states that meet the event area. A report is kept when it is a flood or heavy rain, and it falls inside that area. Plain rain reports stay out. Active flash flood warnings come from api.weather.gov for those states. A warning is drawn when its polygon meets the event area. The next collect replaces that file. A warning with no polygon is left out. Times are Eastern Time (ET). The file is cached with the other collected feeds. If the feed is down, the previous file stays. An empty cache shows no dots. A curated post list is optional. A missing file shows no pins.

Social pins are an approved list stored with the site. The coordinates are the town, not a person. The site stores the post address and id, and does not download the photo or video. X uses the official embed from platform.twitter.com, and that script loads only on this page when an X post is approved. Instagram and Facebook are a link card until META_OEMBED_TOKEN is set, which asks Meta for the official embed. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The methodology page is the full reference for the forecast scores. How we grade says the same rules in plain English. This map is not a score.

Damage map

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Local storm reports

42 reports from when the storm was nearby.

The kind of local storm report: wind gust, damage, flood, surge, or tornado. How strong the report was, in the units the National Weather Service used. Blank when the report did not include a number. Eastern TimeWhen the report was valid, shown in Eastern Time. The town, or the distance from a town, in the local storm report. RemarksThe note that came with the local storm report.
Flood — 7:00 PM ET Mon, Oct 26 5 E Horizon City, TX 9 homes evacuated due to flooding caused by suspected dam breach.
Flood — 6:46 PM ET Mon, Oct 26 1 SW Bernardo, NM Old Highway 60 near Bernardo bridge overtopped. Old (disused) trestle bridge overtopped over Rio Puerco. Road closed for safety.
Flood — 6:17 PM ET Mon, Oct 26 1 S Bernardo, NM *** 1 FATAL *** 1 adult female swept away in truck in early hours. SW crews performed recovery at 1600.
Flood — 7:00 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 1 W Laguna Pueblo, NM Portions of Old Route 66 in Laguna Pueblo washed out by Rio San Jose.
Flood — 7:00 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 10 SE Mesita, NM Multiple residential structures in Highland Meadows flooded from over flow from Rio San Jose.
Flood — 3:41 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 Dalhart, TX All Highway 87 underpasses were closed due to at least 3 feet of standing water. Social media video shows some areas of fast-moving water that was flowing into the underpass.
Flood — 3:15 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 1 S Bernardo, NM 15 people required water rescue. As of 1530 pm one person still missing. Others recovered successfully.
Flood — 2:30 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 7 NW Sparks, TX Vehicle stuck in water.
Flood — 2:19 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 5 NW Sparks, TX Vehicle stuck in flood water.
Flood — 2:18 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 4 NW Sparks, TX Apartment flooding.
Flood — 2:15 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 4 E Montana Vista, TX Social media video showing Montana Ave flooded near Desert Haven Road.
Flood — 1:49 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 6 NW Socorro, TX Water flooding home.
Flood — 1:22 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 Bernardo, NM One person stranded on Roman Lopez road in mud and water, requiring rescue.
Flood — 12:03 AM ET Mon, Oct 26 8 N Two Rivers Dam, NM NM DOT reported U.S. Hwy 70 closed 7 miles west of Roswell due to standing water over the roadway.
Flood — 11:46 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 1 E Bernardo, NM NM DOT reported U.S. Highway 60 closed at MM 166 just east of Bernardo due to flooding in both directions.
Flood — 11:46 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 4 S Las Nutrias, NM US 60 EB and WB closed due to flooding from Rio Puerco between Bernardo and junction of 47.
Flood — 11:09 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 6 N Agua Fria, NM *** 1 FATAL, 2 INJ *** 1 adult female, 1 adult male and one infant in silver hatchback swept away while going through low water crossing. Adult male and infant successfully rescued.
Flood — 9:25 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 7 W Belen, NM Bridge on Marble quarry road over Rio Puerco collapsed due to flood damage.
Flood — 12:09 AM ET Sun, Oct 25 5 W Hope, NM A trained spotter reports a road closure due to at least 6 inches of standing water on HWY 82 at Charlie White Draw, about 6 miles west of Hope, NM.
Flood — 9:45 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 4 N Edgewood, NM Cars stranded on NM-344 near Hawks Lane.
Flood — 8:50 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 W Encinoso, NM NM DOT reported NM 246 closed at MM11 due to standing water over the roadway from flash flooding.
Flood — 8:26 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 N Seama, NM I 40 WB and EB closed from MM 102 to 108 due to flooding over the interstate.
Flood — 8:23 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 6 NE Colorado City, CO EM reports multiple cars have slide off Interstate 25 between mile markers 68 and 80 due to heavy rainfall and water on the highway.
Flood — 8:00 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 E Canutillo, TX Social Media reports show waist high water flowing along Northwestern Dr with water getting into at least one house.
Flood — 7:50 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 S Capitan, NM Magado Creek is out of it's banks and crossing E Deer Trail Road. E Deer Trail road is impassible.
Flood — 7:34 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 3 E Sunland Park, TX TxDOT street cams showed water covering the intersection of Paisano and Executive.
Flood — 7:30 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 5 NE Sedillo, NM Water over the road at Frost Road and Broken Arrow. Arroyo out of its banks.
Flood — 7:25 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 Anthony, TX Service road next to I-10 near Wet and Wild is closed with water flowing over the road.
Flood — 7:17 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 NE North Acomita Vill, NM Flash flooding has impacted first floor of Sky City Casino. Attendees have evacuated to second floor. EM is working to open a shelter.
Flood — 2:18 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 S Navajo Dam, NM NM 539 closed due to flooding.
Flood — 2:13 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 W Fruitland, NM N36 closed from junction of NM 371 on. Mud and Boulders in road.
Flood — 2:00 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 SW Farmington, NM FD reports culverts getting ripped out of road from rain coming off the foothills on the north side of Farmington.
Flood — 1:59 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 SW Farmington, NM Farmingon Glade Arroyo overflowed its banks and impacted several homes along the arroyo.
Flood — 12:55 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 SE Shiprock, NM Bridge over San Juan River on HWY 64 in Shiprock is closed due to water overtopping as the river exceeded 21' in this location.
Flood — 1:00 AM ET Sat, Oct 24 13 S Pagosa Junction, NM *** 1 FATAL *** 1 adult male swept away in truck in low water crossing.
Flood — 1:00 AM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 E Lumberton, NM County Road 352 was washed out with mudslide and boulders. Residents above this location were cut off due to road damage. Time is a very rough estimate based on rainfall timing and nearby reports.
Flood — 8:30 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 12 NE Cabezon Peak, NM significant flash flooding observed with hail storm along U.S. 550.
Flood — 8:28 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 3 SE Fort Bliss, TX Ponding of water over a foot at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Airway Blvd.
Flood — 8:23 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 17 SE Truth Or Conseque, NM Public reports 1 foot of water crossing the road near Spaceport America site.
Flood — 6:30 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 Grants, NM Drone footage shared by KRQE showed large areas of water flooding streets and properties in Grants near Nimitz Drive and East Sargeant Street. Time estimated.
Flood — 3:23 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 1 E Seama, NM The NM Dept. of Homeland Security relayed a report from the field of river flooding along the Rio San Jose where it crosses I-40 just outside of Laguna. The river was 100 yds either side out of its banks, impacting farm land.
Flood — 3:20 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 12 NE Gallina, NM Resident in vacation home in canyon west of Rio Chama reports road too muddy and washed out to travel on.

Source: National Weather Service local storm reports, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. These reports are preliminary. Forecast Scoreboard is not affiliated with NWS, NOAA, or Iowa State University.

Flash flood warnings

No flash flood warning is on file for this area yet.

Active flash flood warnings come from the National Weather Service. The next collect replaces this list. A warning that has expired drops off.

Hand-picked posts

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