Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New Mexico, 1997
10 tornado watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- June5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 7, 19972 tornado 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 6, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harding, Union | 5 hr |
| May 28, 4:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Catron, Doña Ana, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 7, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Doña Ana, Eddy, Lincoln, Otero, Socorro | 5 hr |
| Jun 8, 12:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 6 hr |
| Oct 11, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 11, 11:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, Union | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Harding County5
- Union County5
- Curry County5
- Quay County5
- Roosevelt County4
- Chaves County4
- Lea County3
- Colfax County3
- Mora County3
- San Miguel County3
- Eddy County3
- Lincoln County3
- De Baca County3
- Guadalupe County3
- Doña Ana County2
- Socorro County2
- Catron County1
- Grant County1
- Hidalgo County1
- Luna County1
- Sierra County1
- Otero County1
- Taos 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.