Tornado, Union
- When
- August 14, 2:40 PM MST to 2:42 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, Hobbs
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.720, -103.170
The Hobbs Police Department reported a rope tornado that briefly touched down.
Tornado in New Mexico, August 14, 1995
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:37 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 14, 1995
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 14, 1995
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, August 14, 1995
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 14, 1995
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 14, 1995
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 14, 1995
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 14, 1995
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1995Every state in 1995This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Mexico, 1995Warnings in New Mexico, August 1995
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10337019.