Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2018
15 severe thunderstorm watches in 2018. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 15
- Busiest month
- May5 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20182 severe thunderstorm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Curry, Harding, Quay, Union | 8 hr |
| May 21, 12:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Cibola, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Otero, Torrance | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harding, Union | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 12:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Doña Ana, Eddy and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lea | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Union | 9 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Union | 7 hr |
| Jun 24, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harding, Quay, Union | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 12:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Union | 9 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Union | 7 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 7 hr |
| Oct 6, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 1:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding and 5 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County10
- Harding County6
- Colfax County5
- Lea County5
- Quay County4
- Lincoln County4
- Chaves County4
- De Baca County4
- Guadalupe County4
- Eddy County4
- San Miguel County4
- Curry County3
- Torrance County3
- Mora County3
- Roosevelt County3
- Bernalillo County2
- Los Alamos County2
- McKinley County2
- Rio Arriba County2
- Sandoval County2
- Santa Fe County2
- Socorro County2
- Taos County2
- Valencia County2
- Otero County2
- Cibola County1
- Doña Ana County1
- San Juan County1
- Sierra County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.