High Wind Watches in New Mexico
855 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 855
- Busiest year
- 202261 high wind watches
- Average year
- 39over 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 County511
- San Miguel County79
- Torrance County77
- Santa Fe County70
- Otero County68
- Colfax County61
- Lincoln County61
- Mora County61
- Valencia County51
- Guadalupe County50
- Chaves County49
- Union County47
- Lea County44
- Sandoval County43
- Grant County42
- Sierra County42
- Bernalillo County42
- Luna County41
- Doña Ana County40
- Socorro County40
- Taos County40
- Quay County39
- Harding County37
- Rio Arriba County37
- Cibola County32
- De Baca County29
- Hidalgo County28
- Curry County28
- Catron County26
- Roosevelt County25
- McKinley County20
- San Juan County10
- Los Alamos County6
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 12:08 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 3 more | 13 hr |
| May 4, 12:30 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 12 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:21 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Mora and 7 more | 20 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:07 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 22 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:44 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 24 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:58 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 25 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:19 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 10 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:30 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 11 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:38 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Curry, Quay, Roosevelt, Sandoval and 3 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 13, 12:12 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Otero | 10 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:34 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 18 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 13, 9:07 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 27 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.