1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 9, 1:55 PM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 255 PM MDT THU AUG 9 2001 UPPER LOW PARKED OVER NM TO SLOWLY WEAKEN NEXT 24 TO 26 HOURS AND BY SAT SHOULD BY HISTORY. UPPER HIGH TO THE W WILL BUILD EWD AND BE CENTERED OVER THE 4 CORNERS AREA LATE IN THE WEEKEND. HIGH TO HOLD ITS GROUND THROUGH AT LEAST THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. GENERALLY TREND WILL BE FOR LESS CONVECTION AND WARMER TEMPS THIS WEEKEND THROUGH MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. ANOTHER ACTIVE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT PERIOD COMING UP IN TERMS OF PRECIP. AFTER THE RATHER EXTENSIVE EVENING ROUND OF STORMS MAIN FOCUS SHOULD BE IN THE NE...WHERE COLD FRONT CURRENTLY SITTING AND WAITING FOR DARKNESS AGAIN TO BEGIN ANOTHER SWD PUSH. AFTER COORDINATION WITH PUB AND AMA ALL IN AGREEMENT WILL NOT ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH...BUT MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. FOR OUR AREA THAT WILL BE FROM THE SANGRES EWD TO THE TX BORDER...PROBABLY DOWN TO TCC. WILL KEEP PRECIP IN ALL NIGHT IN THE NE...WHILE SHOWERS AND STORMS MOSTLY DIE OUT BY MIDNIGHT ELSEWHERE. FRONT TO MAKE IT TO AROUND CLOVIS/PORTALES BY FRI AM AND BACK TO THE CNTRL MOUNTAINS. MODERATE E WIND LIKELY INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...COULD ACTUALLY DEVELOP FIRST THING THIS EVENING FROM CONVECTION ON E SIDE OF MOUNTAINS...THEN PICK UP AGAIN AFTER MIDNIGHT. FRONT TO WEAKEN IN THE E FRI BUT PLENTY OF RESIDUAL MOISTURE IN THE E FOR COOLER TEMPS AND DECENT CHANCE OF MORE PRECIP. SIMILAR TEMPS AND TSTM COVERAGE IN THE W FRI. GENERALLY DECREASE IN PRECIP EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND AS UPPER LOW DISOLVES AND HEIGHTS RISE. NOTHING TO SCOUR OUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FOR A WHILE THOUGH SO WILL CARRY CHANCE POPS OVER THE WEEKEND...THEN SLIGHT CHANCES MOST/ALL ZONES THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. MRF HAS FRONT COMING INTO THE STATE THU BUT MAJORITY OF MODELS SLOWER AND WILL KEEP THU WARM WITH ONLY LOW CHANCE POPS. TEMPS AND POPS REASONABLE ON GUIDANCE. ABQ TB 062/085 064/087 064 40434 SAF TT 057/080 057/084 058 40444 TCC TB 062/083 064/089 065 40544 .ABQ...NONE. CHJ
NMZ001>021-026-092000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1123 AM MDT THU AUG 9 2001 NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT...NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. HOWEVER...GUSTY MICROBURST WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH COULD OCCUR NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAIN FROM SLOW MOVING STORMS IS LIKELY IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS. BURNED AREA RAIN OUTLOOK...SMALL AMOUNTS OF RAIN CAN STILL PRODUCE MAJOR FLASH FLOODING IN AREAS THAT SUFFERED LARGE WILDFIRES IN YEAR 2000 OR YEAR 2001. THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING RAIN TODAY AND TONIGHT... IN LINCOLN COUNTY...MODERATE. IN LOS ALAMOS COUNTY...HIGH. IN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY...HIGH. WEATHER SYNOPSIS...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. WEAK MID AND UPPER LEVEL FLOW OVER THE STATE WILL MEAN SLOW MOVING OR EVEN STATIONARY STORMS...MAKING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL A THREAT JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ACROSS THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO. HOWEVER...THE MAIN FOCUS FOR HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND IN PARTICULAR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED INTO THE FAR NORTHEAST TODAY AND WILL DRIFT SOUTHWARD TONIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN UPSLOPE FLOW AND DEEPER MOISTURE FOR THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE STATE AND MAKE IT THE AREA OF PRIMARY CONCERN FOR HEAVY RAIN TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...IS NOT EXPECTED. COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO WHERE SKYWARN SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... NONE. THIS OUTLOOK PRODUCT IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL HAZARDOUS OR LIFE THREATENING WEATHER. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE SPECIFIC STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS RELATED TO FLASH FLOODS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. FOR FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO USE PRODUCT WWUS84 KMAF. FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO USE PRODUCT WWUS84 KEPZ.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Rural residents reported a brief funnel cloud between Dora and Portales.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, August 2001
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: 5263332.