New Mexico

Storm History: Quay County, New Mexico

455 episodes, 758 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Quay 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
758
Deaths
0
Injuries
32
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
455

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
Hail279011$5.4 million
Tornado210020$5.5 million
Flash Flood7501$318,000
Thunderstorm Wind4900$105,000
Drought4800
High Wind3800
Wildfire1400$120,000
Dust Storm1300$6,000
Winter Storm1100
Heavy Snow700
Blizzard500$100,000
Funnel Cloud300
Heavy Rain200
Winter Weather200
Excessive Heat100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Quay County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Quay CountyEvery warning in Quay 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.