Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Warnings / 2021

Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, May 2021

16 tornado warnings in May 2021. 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
16
Busiest day
May 30, 20217 tornado 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 1:22 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSandoval, Santa Fe23 min
May 17, 4:42 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay38 min
May 17, 5:41 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay, Union14 min
May 22, 1:57 PM MDTTornado WarningABQLincoln33 min
May 22, 3:11 PM MDTTornado WarningABQLincoln34 min
May 22, 4:33 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves, De Baca, Lincoln27 min
May 28, 5:19 PM MDTTornado WarningABQLincoln41 min
May 28, 6:11 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves, Lincoln12 min
May 29, 6:43 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABQUnion47 min
May 29, 7:27 PM MDTTornado WarningABQUnion24 min
May 30, 2:17 PM MDTTornado WarningABQLincoln43 min
May 30, 3:31 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatABQUnion44 min
May 30, 4:41 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABQChaves34 min
May 30, 5:13 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMAFLea20 min
May 30, 5:15 PM MDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABQChaves29 min
May 31, 1:52 PM MDTTornado WarningABQLincoln, Socorro38 min

By county

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

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.