Tornado, Lea
- When
- June 2, 7:13 PM MST to 7:16 PM MST
- Where
- Lea County, 3 mi S of Crossroads
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.470, -103.330
Tornado in New Mexico, June 2, 1996
The Tatum Police Dept. reported a brief tornado three miles south of Crossroads.
Where it happened
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- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
The Tatum Police Dept. reported a brief tornado three miles south of Crossroads.
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 132 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:12 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
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- Hail in Texas, June 2, 1996
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Mexico, 1996Warnings in New Mexico, June 1996
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: 5576688.