New Mexico

Storms in New Mexico in 1960

24 events in 18 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Mexico in 1960, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

New Mexico in 1960 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over New Mexico

The year

Events
24
Deaths
0
Injuries
34
Damage
$50,000
Episodes
18

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail1200
Thunderstorm Wind600
Tornado6034$50,000

Every episode, month by month

January 1960

April 1960

May 1960

June 1960

July 1960

August 1960

September 1960

October 1960

More

Every year in New MexicoEvery state in 1960Tornadoes in New Mexico in 196019591961

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.