Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, May 1987
18 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 1987. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 22, 19875 severe thunderstorm warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 12:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 50 min |
| May 22, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 60 min |
| May 22, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 60 min |
| May 22, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| May 22, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 70 min |
| May 22, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 56 min |
| May 22, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 58 min |
| May 22, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 23, 11:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 23, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 2 hr |
| May 23, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 67 min |
| May 24, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 58 min |
| May 24, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 57 min |
| May 26, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 28, 2:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
| May 30, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 68 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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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.