Heavy snow of 5 to 9 inches developed over the highlands of east central New Mexico and spread northeast into the adjacent areas of Guadalupe, San Miguel and Harding counties.
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 5 to 9 inches developed over the highlands of east central New Mexico and spread northeast into the adjacent areas of Guadalupe, San Miguel and Harding counties.
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 Feb 27, 9:10 PM MST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
910 PM MST TUE FEB 27 2001
STILL A MESS. OUTPUT FROM THE LATEST PACJET RUC2 AND MESOETA RUNS...
WHICH MESH WELL WITH IR SATELLITE AND 88D IMAGERY...SUGGEST
ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 6 INCHES OVERNIGHT FROM THE RUIDOSO AREA NORTH
AND NORTHEAST TO SANTA ROSA...ROY AND LAS VEGAS. THUS...WILL ADJUST
THE ADVISORY AND WARNING AREAS FOR THE FIRST PERIOD. 38
.ABQ...WINTER STORM WARNING OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY
NMZ005-006-012-016-017.
...SNOW ADVISORY OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY
NMZ002-004-007-008-010-011-013-018.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY OVERNIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY
NMZ019>021-026.3 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, February 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: 5234851, 5234852, 5234853.