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Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 1997

21 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
21
Busiest month
October7 tornado warnings
Busiest day
October 12, 19975 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 5:17 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea33 min
May 6, 6:04 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea31 min
May 8, 6:06 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt34 min
May 8, 6:45 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea35 min
May 22, 4:06 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy49 min
May 28, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea47 min
May 30, 7:16 PM MDTTornado WarningABQGuadalupe64 min
Jun 7, 6:18 PM MDTTornado WarningEPZDoña Ana37 min
Jul 3, 7:43 PM MDTTornado WarningABQDe Baca32 min
Jul 4, 3:49 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCibola36 min
Jul 5, 8:15 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea50 min
Jul 5, 9:04 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea31 min
Aug 17, 11:35 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves55 min
Oct 11, 4:49 PM MDTTornado WarningABQColfax31 min
Oct 11, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy46 min
Oct 11, 6:09 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFEddy31 min
Oct 11, 6:26 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves24 min
Oct 11, 6:42 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea63 min
Oct 11, 7:10 PM MDTTornado WarningABQColfax30 min
Oct 11, 7:48 PM MDTTornado WarningABQColfax32 min
Dec 2, 3:11 PM MSTTornado WarningABQChaves49 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. October 12, 19975tornado warnings
  2. May 9, 19972tornado warnings
  3. July 4, 19972tornado warnings
  4. July 6, 19972tornado warnings
  5. October 11, 19972tornado warnings
  6. April 22, 19971tornado warnings
  7. May 7, 19971tornado warnings
  8. May 22, 19971tornado warnings
  9. May 29, 19971tornado warnings
  10. May 31, 19971tornado warnings
  11. June 8, 19971tornado warnings
  12. August 18, 19971tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.