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Tornado Hits Alto, New Mexico, Damaging Home and Trees

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A white spherical radar dome on a small building at the top of a grassy limestone ridge, dark storm cloud filling the sky behind, masts along the crest
A weather radar dome of the kind that tracks storms and the rotation inside them (illustrative)"Radar Dome at La Dôle" by Björn S., via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

A tornado touched down 3 miles northeast of Alto, in New Mexico's Lincoln County, at 5:15 p.m. MDT on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, the National Weather Service's Albuquerque office said in a Local Storm Report. The tornado caused minor damage to a house, blew in its garage door, damaged a shed and downed trees, the office said.

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