New Mexico

Storms in New Mexico in 2023

1,257 events in 181 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in New Mexico in 2023, 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 2023 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
1,257
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
181

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
High Wind35300$3.6 million
Drought34100
Hail22601$4,000
Thunderstorm Wind12600$1.8 million
Heavy Snow10300$40,000
Flash Flood4500$1.3 million
Winter Storm1500$1.0 million
Tornado1300$7.8 million
Excessive Heat1100
Winter Weather500
Funnel Cloud400
Strong Wind400
Wildfire301$760,000
Freezing Fog200
Dust Storm200
Flood200$1.3 million
Avalanche100
Heavy Rain100

Every episode, month by month

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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.