Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2026

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, May 2026

33 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 33
Busiest day: May 21, 20269 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 14, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	30 min
May 14, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	48 min
May 15, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	56 min
May 15, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	44 min
May 21, 12:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	43 min
May 21, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	42 min
May 21, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	49 min
May 21, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	55 min
May 21, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	44 min
May 21, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	16 min
May 21, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	24 min
May 21, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	45 min
May 21, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	61 min
May 21, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	35 min
May 21, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	43 min
May 22, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	29 min
May 22, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	60 min
May 22, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	46 min
May 22, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	45 min
May 23, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	22 min
May 23, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	67 min
May 25, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana	45 min
May 25, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EPZ	Doña Ana, Sierra	48 min
May 25, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	41 min
May 25, 11:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	51 min
May 26, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	65 min
May 26, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Eddy	55 min
May 26, 4:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	53 min
May 27, 8:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	34 min
May 27, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	47 min
May 28, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	26 min
May 28, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	34 min
May 28, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	50 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.