Heat in New Mexico, March 20 to 21, 1997

Name: Heat in New Mexico, March 20 to 21, 1997
Start: 1997-03-20T15:10
End: 1997-03-21T15:47
Location: New Mexico

March 20 to 21, 1997 · NWS ABQ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.

Heat, Middle Rio Grande Valley

When: March 20, 3:10 PM MST to March 21, 3:47 PM MST
Where: Middle Rio Grande Valley forecast zone

Daily record high temperatures of 77 and 81 degrees were set at Albuquerque on the 20th and 21st. This capped nearly three weeks of dry and unusually warm weather. Temperatures during the period across the northern two-thirds of the state averaged 4 to 8 degrees warmer than normal raising concern for a high fire danger season and prompting the early budding of trees and greening of spring plants and grasses.

What these are

Heat: Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in New Mexico in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in New Mexico, March 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: 5604118.