New Mexico

Storm History: San Juan County, New Mexico

235 episodes, 444 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in San Juan 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
444
Deaths
5
Injuries
11
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
235

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
Drought22600
Flash Flood6110$7.2 million
Tornado4214$909,000
Thunderstorm Wind3100$3.1 million
Hail1700$1,000
Winter Storm1500
Heavy Snow1300
High Wind1000$20,000
Wildfire1000$300,000
Blizzard700
Lightning613$70,000
Heavy Rain214$100,000
Funnel Cloud100
Heat110
Excessive Heat100
Dust Storm100

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in San Juan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in San Juan CountyEvery warning in San Juan 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.