Tornado in San Miguel County, New Mexico

Tornado August 18, 2025 · San Miguel County, New Mexico

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Not rated

0.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Broadcast media shared a viewer photo of a landspout tornado in Las Vegas New Mexico. Location and time are an estimate based on information provided from broadcast media.

The wider storm

A traditional monsoon flow on the western flank of an upper level high over the central U.S. combined with daytime heating resulted in the development of shower and thunderstorm activity across the higher terrain during the early through late afternoon hours. Some of this shower and thunderstorm activity moved over the South Fork burn scar on both August 17th and August 18th resulting in flash flooding and debris flow across roadways on and downstream of the burn scar. Overall impacts were reported to be more severe and widespread on August 17th compared to August 18th. Finally, a brief landspout was observed in Las Vegas during the mid afternoon on August 18th as well as near the Bernalillo and Sandoval County line during the mid afternoon on August 19th.

Began near (lvs)las Vegas Airport (35.6678, -105.1686).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EFU Sandoval County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1274891. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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