Dust Storm Advisories in New Mexico
391 dust storm advisories 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 dust storm advisories reaches back to 2005.
Dust Storm Advisories by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Dust Storm Advisories
- 391
- Busiest year
- 2025124 dust storm advisories
- Average year
- 43over 9 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.
- Hidalgo County137
- Doña Ana County108
- Luna County59
- Otero County58
- Chaves County36
- Sandoval County31
- Grant County30
- Lea County23
- Bernalillo County21
- Lincoln County19
- Roosevelt County16
- Valencia County14
- Eddy County14
- Rio Arriba County14
- Sierra County13
- Santa Fe County13
- San Juan County13
- McKinley County12
- Torrance County10
- Curry County7
- San Miguel County6
- Quay County5
- Socorro County5
- De Baca County4
- Guadalupe County3
- Harding County3
- Cibola County2
- Los Alamos County2
- Union County1
- Colfax County1
The latest dust storm advisories
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 6:44 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 91 min |
| Sep 8, 7:11 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 94 min |
| Aug 31, 7:15 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero | 90 min |
| Aug 31, 6:41 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana | 94 min |
| Aug 31, 6:32 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Doña Ana, Luna | 88 min |
| Aug 29, 6:37 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Valencia | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 4:45 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 90 min |
| Aug 26, 7:54 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 5:34 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 41 min |
| Aug 21, 4:47 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 88 min |
| Aug 13, 4:46 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 1:18 AM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | EPZ | Hidalgo | 87 min |
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.