New Mexico

Storms in New Mexico in 2009

518 events in 135 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Mexico in 2009, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

New Mexico in 2009 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

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The year

Events
518
Deaths
15
Injuries
17
Damage
$9.3 million
Episodes
135

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
Hail14100$1.3 million
High Wind11712$6.3 million
Heavy Snow9876$10,000
Thunderstorm Wind8300$59,000
Flash Flood3826$936,000
Winter Weather1012
Blizzard820$536,000
Lightning511$36,000
Strong Wind400$6,000
Tornado400$29,000
Flood300$4,000
Winter Storm300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110
Wildfire100$157,000
Funnel Cloud100
Dust Devil100

Every episode, month by month

January 2009

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March 2009

April 2009

May 2009

June 2009

July 2009

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September 2009

October 2009

November 2009

December 2009

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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.