Tornado touched down in Santa Fe's Rancho Siringo neighborhood, damaging homes, city says

As of 7:12 a.m. ET, Oct. 25, 2026

A tornado touched down in a Santa Fe, New Mexico, neighborhood on Saturday night, damaging homes and knocking down trees and power lines, the City of Santa Fe said, according to local reporters. The National Weather Service has not yet confirmed the tornado.

"City of Santa Fe says a tornado touched down causing significant damage to neighborhood," local reporter Zach Rael posted on X at 11:43 p.m. ET Saturday. In a later post, Rael said the city reported significant storm damage near Rancho Siringo and Camino Chueco and that the weather service would be in Santa Fe to look at the damage and confirm the tornado.

City spokesperson Peter Olson told The Santa Fe New Mexican there was a "confirmed tornado touchdown in the neighborhood of Rancho Siringo." He said there were multiple reports of damage to homes and of downed trees and power lines in the area, the paper reported.

Warning and damage

The National Weather Service in Albuquerque issued a tornado warning for Santa Fe, Agua Fria and Tesuque at 7:01 p.m. local time (9:01 p.m. ET), valid until 7:30 p.m., according to its posts on X. The storm was "capable of producing a tornado" and was over Santa Fe moving north at 25 mph, the warning said, as quoted by the Albuquerque Journal.

No injuries had been reported as of 10 p.m. local time, according to officials cited by the Albuquerque Journal. Several hundred customers in Santa Fe were without power late Saturday, according to the Public Service Company of New Mexico, The New Mexican reported. The city urged residents to stay indoors, avoid the damaged area and stay away from arroyos and flooded streets, KOAT reported.

Tornadoes are uncommon in Santa Fe County. The county has recorded 27 since 1950, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data cited by the Albuquerque Journal.

What is not known

The weather service had not confirmed the tornado or released a rating, path length or width as of this writing. Officials had not given a count of damaged homes.