New Mexico

Storm History: Roosevelt County, New Mexico

381 episodes, 626 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Roosevelt 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
626
Deaths
0
Injuries
9
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
381

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
Hail23900$5.4 million
Tornado16507$5.5 million
Flash Flood8502$6.2 million
Drought4700
Thunderstorm Wind3400$441,000
High Wind1300
Wildfire1100$60,000
Winter Storm1000$100,000
Dust Storm700$50,000
Heavy Snow600
Funnel Cloud300
Blizzard300
Flood100$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Debris Flow100

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 Roosevelt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Roosevelt CountyEvery warning in Roosevelt 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.