High Wind, Capitan/Northern Sacramento Mountains
- When
- January 3, 12:00 PM MST to 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Capitan/Northern Sacramento Mountains forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
High Wind in New Mexico, January 3, 1997
Sustained wind reached 40 to 44 mph with gusts to 58 mph for several hours at the Sierra Blanca airport.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Sustained wind reached 40 to 44 mph with gusts to 58 mph for several hours at the Sierra Blanca airport.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Utah, January 3, 1997
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 3 to 5, 1997
- Flood in California, January 3, 1997
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, January 3 to 5, 1997
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, January 3 to 5, 1997
- Heat in New Jersey, January 3 to 5, 1997
- Heat in Pennsylvania, January 3 to 5, 1997
- Dense Fog in Florida, January 3, 1997
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, January 3 to 4, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 3 to 4, 1997
- Heat in Maryland, January 3 to 6, 1997
- Heat in Delaware, January 3 to 6, 1997
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, January 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5586759.