Tornado Watches in New Mexico
90 tornado watches since 1986. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 90
- Busiest year
- 199710 tornado watches
- Average year
- 3over 26 years on file
Over time
By year
Watches are counted from 1997, when the Storm Prediction Center archive begins.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lea County48
- Roosevelt County43
- Quay County39
- Curry County38
- Eddy County35
- Chaves County33
- Harding County30
- Union County30
- De Baca County29
- Guadalupe County23
- San Miguel County23
- Colfax County22
- Mora County18
- Lincoln County15
- Torrance County7
- Otero County6
- Socorro County4
- Santa Fe County4
- Doña Ana County3
- Taos County3
- Sierra County2
- Bernalillo County2
- Sandoval County2
- Valencia County2
- Catron County1
- Grant County1
- Hidalgo County1
- Luna County1
- Los Alamos County1
- Rio Arriba County1
The latest tornado watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:54 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Eddy, Harding, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:18 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 9 hr |
| May 5, 7:57 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 9 hr |
| May 5, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:48 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Lea and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:57 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 8 hr |
Nearby
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.