Heavy snow of 6 to 10 inches was reported along the continental divide and in the areas above 7500 feet across west central New Mexico.
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 ABQ wrote it up.
Heavy snow of 6 to 10 inches was reported along the continental divide and in the areas above 7500 feet across west central New Mexico.
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 Dec 11, 11:45 AM MST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1145 AM MST TUE DEC 11 2001
DISTURBANCE WELL AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROUGH WITH YET ANOTHER POISED
OVER CENTRAL AZ. ACCUMULATING SNOW HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THE
EASTERN SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS WEST TO THE AZ STATE LINE.
UPDATE WILL BE TO UPGRADE AND ADD TO WINTER HIGHLIGHTS THROUGH
TONIGHT. MORE DETAILS IN THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE. GB
.ABQ...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH TONIGHT NMZ008-014.
...SNOW ADVISORY THROUGH TONIGHT NMZ002>004-009>011-015>017-026.2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
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, December 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: 5276262, 5276263.