Freeze Watches in New Mexico
121 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 121
- Busiest year
- 201413 freeze watches
- Average year
- 6over 21 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.
- Lea County33
- Eddy County25
- Bernalillo County17
- Torrance County17
- Santa Fe County14
- San Miguel County11
- Sandoval County10
- Rio Arriba County10
- Taos County10
- Colfax County8
- Mora County8
- Socorro County7
- Valencia County7
- Cibola County6
- Harding County6
- Union County6
- McKinley County6
- San Juan County6
- Doña Ana County5
- Grant County5
- Luna County5
- Sierra County5
- Chaves County5
- Guadalupe County5
- Lincoln County5
- Otero County4
- Hidalgo County4
- Catron County3
- Quay County3
- De Baca County3
- Roosevelt County3
- Curry County2
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 11:30 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Colfax, Harding, McKinley, Mora, Sandoval and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:01 AM MDT | Freeze Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, McKinley and 11 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:00 PM MDT | Freeze Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, Santa Fe and 2 more | 14 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.