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The public record 1996 to today

New Mexico wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,912 days with wind on record somewhere in New Mexico since 1996, 1,676 of them at 58 mph or more, across 16,758 reports. The strongest on record is 130 mph on 31 May 2023 in LEA County. 35 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: New Mexico hail history.

1,912

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,676

Days at 58 mph or more

130mph

Strongest measured, May 2023

35

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in New Mexico

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Tucumcari 190 days 83 mph
  2. 02 Clovis 185 days 96 mph
  3. 03 Las Vegas 183 days 90 mph
  4. 04 Albuquerque 181 days 90 mph
  5. 05 Los Ranchos de Albuquerque 181 days 99 mph
  6. 06 Sunland Park 131 days 88 mph
  7. 07 Roswell 125 days 92 mph
  8. 08 Carlsbad 119 days 81 mph
  9. 09 Gallup 102 days 75 mph
  10. 10 Corrales 96 days 99 mph
  11. 11 Las Cruces 86 days 92 mph
  12. 12 Bernalillo 86 days 99 mph
  13. 13 Alamogordo 81 days 115 mph
  14. 14 Artesia 79 days 84 mph
  15. 15 Ruidoso 76 days 80 mph
  16. 16 Hobbs 70 days 119 mph
  17. 17 Santa Fe 68 days 85 mph
  18. 18 Deming 68 days 78 mph
  19. 19 Farmington 54 days 104 mph
  20. 20 Edgewood 54 days 100 mph
  21. 21 Portales 50 days 89 mph
  22. 22 Truth or Consequences 49 days 85 mph
  23. 23 Rio Rancho 46 days 86 mph
  24. 24 Belen 37 days 81 mph
  25. 25 Anthony 33 days 82 mph
  26. 26 Taos 27 days 90 mph
  27. 27 Los Lunas 25 days 81 mph
  28. 28 Lovington 24 days 115 mph
  29. 29 Grants 18 days 85 mph
  30. 30 Española 17 days 75 mph
Every place in New Mexico (35)

Wind days by year in New Mexico

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2024, with 106 days of wind, 104 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in New Mexico

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in New Mexico: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
31 May 2023 130 mph Gust Ground observation LEA
31 May 2023 130 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
31 May 2023 125 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
31 May 2023 125 mph Gust Ground observation LEA
31 May 2023 125 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
31 May 2023 125 mph Gust Ground observation LEA
31 May 2023 119 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
31 May 2023 119 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
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The figures on this page are the record across New Mexico: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under New Mexico by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.