Alert archive / New Mexico / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New Mexico, 2008
4 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- May3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20081 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, 2:26 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 7 hr |
| May 14, 11:47 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lea | 6 hr |
| May 28, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:02 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 4 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Curry County3
- Roosevelt County3
- Lea County2
- Chaves County2
- De Baca County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Harding County2
- Mora County2
- Quay County2
- San Miguel County2
- Bernalillo County1
- Colfax County1
- Eddy County1
- Lincoln County1
- Los Alamos County1
- Otero County1
- Rio Arriba County1
- Sandoval County1
- Santa Fe County1
- Socorro County1
- Taos County1
- Torrance County1
- Valencia County1
- Union County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20072009
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.