A high wind event that involved most of the region. S.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
A high wind event that involved most of the region. Utility lines and poles were downed, trailers rolled over, and the visibility was so low that the Texas and New Mexico Departments of Transportation closed U.S. 285 from Pecos, Texas to Malaga, New Mexico.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong gradient winds knocked over trees, street signs, and powerlines in Artesia and Carlsbad.
Measured wind in Tatum.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, March 2000
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: 5138018, 5138019.