Heavy Snow, Northwest Mountains Including Jemez
- When
- April 4, 6:00 AM MST to April 5, 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Northwest Mountains Including Jemez forecast zone
Heavy Snow in New Mexico, April 4 to 5, 1997
Areas of heavy snow developed across the north central mountains and western plateau. Twelve inches of fresh snow was reported on Sandia Peak east of Albuquerque.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
Areas of heavy snow developed across the north central mountains and western plateau. Twelve inches of fresh snow was reported on Sandia Peak east of Albuquerque. Six inches of snow fell at Santa Fe Ski Basin and also at the Torreon Navajo Mission.
Event by event
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Sandia/Manzano Mountains
- When
- April 4, 6:00 AM MST to April 5, 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Sandia/Manzano Mountains forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- When
- April 4, 6:00 AM MST to April 5, 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Sangre de Cristo Mountains forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Westcentral Mountains
- When
- April 4, 6:00 AM MST to April 5, 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Westcentral Mountains forecast zone
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard in North Dakota, April 4 to 7, 1997
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, April 4 to 5, 1997
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, April 4 to 6, 1997
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, April 4, 1997
- Blizzard in Wyoming, April 4 to 6, 1997
- Blizzard in Nebraska, April 4 to 6, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 4, 1997
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 4, 1997
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 4, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 4, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 4 to 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 4, 1997
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, April 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5597574, 5597575, 5597576, 5597577.