High Wind Warnings in New Mexico
1,110 high wind warnings 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 high wind warnings reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 1,110
- Busiest year
- 202276 high wind warnings
- Average year
- 50over 22 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.
- Eddy County633
- San Miguel County99
- Otero County98
- Torrance County96
- Santa Fe County90
- Colfax County82
- Mora County79
- Lincoln County74
- Lea County72
- Union County61
- Sierra County60
- Valencia County59
- Grant County58
- Chaves County58
- Guadalupe County57
- Luna County53
- Bernalillo County53
- Sandoval County53
- Doña Ana County51
- Taos County49
- Rio Arriba County46
- Socorro County43
- Quay County42
- Harding County40
- Hidalgo County37
- Cibola County33
- De Baca County30
- Catron County29
- Curry County28
- Roosevelt County25
- McKinley County22
- San Juan County9
- Los Alamos County6
The latest high wind warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:16 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 26 hr |
| May 4, 12:49 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 31 hr |
| Apr 25, 7:25 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra | 24 hr |
| Apr 25, 11:24 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay, Sandoval and 5 more | 33 hr |
| Apr 25, 9:06 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 36 hr |
| Apr 23, 10:06 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance | 10 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:06 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 21 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:25 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 25 hr |
| Apr 16, 9:52 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 33 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:15 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 21 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:53 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 35 hr |
| Apr 1, 12:34 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 17 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. Rebuilt daily.