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Severe storms: No thunderstorm or severe-storm area is outlined in New Mexico today. Flash flooding: No excessive-rainfall risk area is outlined in New Mexico today.

Current alerts

1 high wind warning and 2 freeze warnings touch New Mexico. 1 high wind warning 2 freeze warnings (touching New Mexico)

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Sources & update times

SPC Day 1 outlook issued · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 2 outlook issued · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 3 outlook issued · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC discussions checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC storm reports checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

WPC Day 1 outlook issued · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 2 outlook issued · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 3 outlook issued · Data: NOAA/WPC

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Forecast workspace

SPC Day 3 any severe probability, Sunday 18 Oct

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Source: SPC

Now, not forecast: Current warnings as of are drawn over the outlook for Sunday 18 Oct, the warnings hatched so the forecast shows through. They are in force now; the outlook is for its own period. Show the forecast alone

Forecast: SPC’s scale

  • SPC Day 3 any severe probability: Less Than 5% All Areas

In force now

  • High Wind Warning 1
  • Freeze Warning 2
  • Flood Warning outside New Mexico
SPC Day 3 any severe probability, valid to , issued · Data: NOAA/SPC. Warnings and watches are as of (now), not for the outlook’s period.
Everything on the map, as a list
  • SPC Day 3 any severe probability: Less Than 5% All Areas
  • High Wind Warning: Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County; Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet; Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains, until
  • Freeze Warning: Northwest Plateau; Espanola Valley; Santa Fe Metro Area; Middle Rio Grande Valley/Albuquerque Metro Area; Lower Rio Grande Valley; Central Highlands; South Central Highlands; Upper Tularosa Valley; Far Northeast Highlands; Union County; Harding County; Eastern San Miguel County; Guadalupe County; Quay County; Curry County; Roosevelt County; De Baca County; Chaves County Plains; Eastern Lincoln County; Southwest Chaves County; San Agustin Plains and Adjacent Lowlands, until
  • Freeze Warning: Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County; Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet; Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains; Northern Lea County; Central Lea County; Davis Mountains, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: High Wind Warning: Upper Santa Cruz River and Altar Valleys including Nogales; Tucson Metro Area including Tucson/Green Valley/Marana/Vail; South Central Pinal County including Eloy/Picacho Peak State Park; Southeast Pinal County including Kearny/Mammoth/Oracle; Upper San Pedro River Valley including Sierra Vista/Benson; Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet including Douglas/Willcox; Upper Gila River and Aravaipa Valleys including Clifton/Safford; Galiuro and Pinaleno Mountains including Mount Graham; Chiricahua Mountains including Chiricahua National Monument; Dragoon/Mule/Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains including Bisbee/Canelo Hills/Madera Canyon; Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains including Mount Lemmon/Summerhaven, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Flood Warning: Jackson, Kiowa and Tillman counties, OK, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Flood Warning: Wichita and Wilbarger counties, TX, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Cimarron; Texas; Beaver; Dallam; Sherman; Hansford; Ochiltree; Lipscomb; Hartley; Moore; Hutchinson; Roberts; Hemphill; Oldham; Potter; Carson; Gray; Deaf Smith; Randall; Armstrong; Palo Duro Canyon, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Trego; Ellis; Scott; Lane; Ness; Rush; Hamilton; Kearny; Finney; Hodgeman; Pawnee; Stafford; Stanton; Grant; Haskell; Gray; Ford; Edwards; Kiowa; Pratt; Morton; Stevens; Seward; Meade; Clark; Comanche; Barber, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Harper; Ellis, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Lower Yampa River Basin; Central Yampa River Basin; Upper Yampa River Basin; Central Colorado River Basin; San Juan River Basin, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Yuma County; Kit Carson County; Cheyenne County; Cheyenne; Rawlins; Decatur; Norton; Sherman; Thomas; Sheridan; Graham; Wallace; Logan; Gove; Greeley; Wichita; Dundy; Hitchcock; Red Willow, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Parmer; Castro; Swisher; Briscoe; Bailey; Lamb; Hale; Floyd; Cochran; Hockley; Lubbock; Crosby; Yoakum; Terry; Lynn, until
  • Outside New Mexico, for context: Freeze Warning: Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County; Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft; Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft; Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet; Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft; Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft; Crowley County; La Junta Vicinity/Otero County; Eastern Las Animas County; Western Kiowa County; Eastern Kiowa County; Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County; Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County; Springfield Vicinity/Baca County, until
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Coming days · New Mexico

These are daily outlooks, not arrival times. Days 4–8 retain SPC’s predictability and potential-too-low wording in the dated outlook controls.

Flash-flood risk

WPC outlines no excessive rainfall area at this scope. WPC’s Excessive Rainfall Outlook: a separate forecast with its own scale.

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Recent reports

Reporting period: 12Z 16 Oct – 12Z 17 Oct

0 tornado · 0 wind · 0 hail in New Mexico

Preliminary reports: a count of reports, not of storms. None reported is not proof that nothing happened.

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No watches or mesoscale discussions in New Mexico. Watches, discussions and warnings in the Live tracker

Warnings in New Mexico

3 warnings touching New Mexico

3 warnings touch New Mexico, most urgent first. A warning across a state line is counted here and in the other state.

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Since : no change in the warnings.

Warnings 3

All 3 warnings touching New Mexico, with their full text, in the Live tracker

61 warnings elsewhere in the country: the national list. Track New Mexico live

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