New Mexico

Storms in New Mexico in 1977

27 events in 21 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Mexico in 1977, 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 1977 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
27
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$305,000
Episodes
21

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
Hail1000
Thunderstorm Wind900
Tornado803$305,000

Every episode, month by month

April 1977

May 1977

June 1977

July 1977

August 1977

September 1977

October 1977

December 1977

More

Every year in New MexicoEvery state in 1977Tornadoes in New Mexico in 197719761978

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.