Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, May 2018
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20182 severe thunderstorm watches
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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harding County3
- Union County3
- Lincoln County3
- Curry County2
- Quay County2
- Torrance County2
- Chaves County2
- De Baca County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Bernalillo County1
- Cibola County1
- Los Alamos County1
- McKinley County1
- Rio Arriba County1
- Sandoval County1
- Santa Fe County1
- Socorro County1
- Taos County1
- Valencia County1
- Otero County1
- Colfax County1
- Eddy County1
- Lea County1
- Mora County1
- Roosevelt County1
- San Miguel County1
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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.