Winter Storm Watches in New Mexico
370 winter storm 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 370
- Busiest year
- 201032 winter storm watches
- 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.
- Rio Arriba County61
- Taos County61
- Colfax County56
- Mora County49
- San Miguel County49
- Santa Fe County48
- Sandoval County41
- Los Alamos County40
- Eddy County35
- Union County31
- Lea County30
- Otero County29
- San Juan County23
- McKinley County22
- Socorro County20
- Catron County17
- Cibola County16
- Torrance County16
- Grant County15
- Valencia County14
- Lincoln County13
- Luna County12
- Bernalillo County12
- Guadalupe County11
- Sierra County10
- Harding County10
- Hidalgo County9
- Chaves County9
- Curry County9
- Quay County9
- De Baca County8
- Roosevelt County8
- Doña Ana County3
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 10:42 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 1 more | 14 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:01 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 12 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:18 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | EPZ | Otero | 38 hr |
| Jan 21, 1:56 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 16 more | 49 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:13 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 36 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:05 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 24 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.