Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in New Mexico, June 1997
5 tornado watches in June 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 June 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- June 7, 19972 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colfax County2
- Harding County2
- Mora County2
- Quay County2
- San Miguel County2
- Union County2
- Doña Ana County2
- Socorro County2
- Chaves County2
- Eddy County2
- Lincoln County2
- Catron County1
- Grant County1
- Hidalgo County1
- Luna County1
- Sierra County1
- Otero County1
- Lea County1
- Curry County1
- De Baca County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Roosevelt County1
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.