Winter Storm Warnings in New Mexico
368 winter storm warnings 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Warnings
- 368
- Busiest year
- 201028 winter storm warnings
- Average year
- 17over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Colfax County66
- Rio Arriba County65
- Taos County65
- San Miguel County59
- Santa Fe County57
- Mora County54
- Sandoval County45
- Otero County41
- Los Alamos County39
- Union County36
- Eddy County32
- Torrance County27
- Bernalillo County26
- San Juan County26
- Valencia County26
- Socorro County25
- McKinley County23
- Lea County22
- Catron County22
- Cibola County19
- Lincoln County19
- Grant County15
- Guadalupe County15
- Harding County14
- Luna County12
- Chaves County12
- Curry County12
- Roosevelt County12
- De Baca County11
- Quay County11
- Hidalgo County10
- Sierra County10
- Doña Ana County5
The latest winter storm warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 12:37 PM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 1 more | 57 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:27 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Taos | 27 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:53 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 29 hr |
| Jan 22, 5:20 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | EPZ | Otero | 66 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:27 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 70 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:07 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 13 more | 71 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:05 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Harding, Los Alamos and 12 more | 64 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.