Alert archive / New Mexico / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2025
46 high wind watches in 2025. 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 in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 46
- Busiest month
- March22 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20253 high wind watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 7:14 PM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 16 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:06 PM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Guadalupe, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance | 12 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:11 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 23 hr |
| Jan 28, 11:51 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 24 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:23 PM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel | 8 hr |
| Feb 10, 12:02 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 24 hr |
| Feb 13, 12:00 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 13 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:41 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 11 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:20 AM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Guadalupe, Lincoln, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance | 25 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:20 AM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 10 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:28 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 12 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:44 AM MST | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Otero, Sierra | 11 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:47 PM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 10 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:29 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Lea | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 12:49 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 11 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:47 AM MST | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Otero | 11 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:40 AM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 9 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:32 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 24 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:56 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 12 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:08 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 12 more | 33 hr |
| Mar 12, 5:54 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 7 hr |
| Mar 12, 7:55 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 17 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:28 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 36 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:41 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 15 more | 31 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:55 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 9 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:13 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 14 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:44 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 19 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:42 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 34 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:15 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 11 hr |
| Apr 14, 12:50 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 42 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:33 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe and 11 more | 36 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:58 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 36 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:17 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba and 8 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:30 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, Sierra | 24 hr |
| May 13, 12:49 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 24 hr |
| May 13, 2:45 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | EPZ | Otero | 21 hr |
| May 13, 3:58 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance | 11 hr |
| May 17, 12:44 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 13 hr |
| May 17, 1:43 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 30 hr |
| Sep 22, 9:27 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 17 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:02 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:20 PM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 13 hr |
| Nov 27, 11:25 PM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 35 hr |
| Dec 4, 9:47 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 15 hr |
| Dec 5, 10:43 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MAF | Eddy | 10 hr |
| Dec 16, 11:32 AM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Guadalupe, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 2 more | 13 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Eddy County23
- San Miguel County14
- Santa Fe County13
- Torrance County13
- Chaves County11
- Colfax County11
- Mora County11
- Guadalupe County10
- Lincoln County10
- Socorro County8
- Valencia County8
- Otero County8
- Harding County7
- Union County7
- Quay County6
- Doña Ana County6
- Sierra County6
- Bernalillo County6
- Rio Arriba County6
- Taos County6
- Curry County5
- De Baca County5
- Roosevelt County5
- Sandoval County5
- Grant County5
- Luna County5
- Lea County4
- Cibola County3
- Catron County2
- McKinley County2
- Los Alamos County1
- San Juan County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.