New Mexico

Storm History: Union County, New Mexico

489 episodes, 854 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Union 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
854
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
489

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
Hail34701$210,000
Tornado13200$5.8 million
Flash Flood10200$476,000
Drought8300
High Wind5800$77,000
Thunderstorm Wind4300$6,000
Winter Storm3100$175,000
Heavy Snow1300
Dust Storm1200$8,000
Blizzard1201$4.0 million
Wildfire1000$30,000
Funnel Cloud400
Winter Weather200
Freezing Fog200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
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 Union County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Union CountyEvery warning in Union 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.