New Mexico

Storm History: Hidalgo County, New Mexico

233 episodes, 532 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hidalgo County, New Mexico: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
532
Deaths
5
Injuries
6
Damage
$150,000
Episodes
233

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Drought38400
Dust Storm3443
High Wind2900
Thunderstorm Wind2311$78,000
Hail2000$70,000
Flash Flood1902
Tornado500$3,000
Heavy Snow500
Avalanche400
Excessive Heat300
Heavy Rain200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Storm100
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hidalgo CountyEvery warning in Hidalgo County since 1986Every county in New Mexico

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.