1 dust devil, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Jul 15, 1:30 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 230 PM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001 12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWS DRY AIR AT 500MB WORKING ENE ACROSS SOCAL/AZ/S.NV. THIS DRY SLOT IS ALSO OBVIOUS ON WV IMAGERY AND IS CURRENTLY WORKING ACROSS NORTHWEST NM AND SOUTHWEST CO. 700MB DRYING IS ORIENTED FROM SW TO NE ACROSS SOCAL AND WESTERN AZ...WILL PROBABLY NOT MAKE IT INTO OUR CWA GIVEN THAT THE 700MB HIGH IS NOT GOING TO BUDGE...INFACT IS FORECAST TO BUILD WESTWARD W/TIME. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THAT 3000-5000 FEET WORTH OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE WEST AND NORTH OVER THE NEXT 24-36 HOURS...WHICH WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR AFTERNOON/EVENING BOOMERS. MID LEVEL DRYING WITH NEUTRAL TEMP ADVECTION IN THIS CASE WILL ACT TO INVIGORATE CONVECTION. A SURFACE TROUGH AND AREA OF GREATEST LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IS FORECAST TO SHIFT EAST OVER UNION...HARDING...QUAY AND CURRY COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE LATEST SPC DAY1 OUTLOOK PUTS THESE COUNTIES IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WHICH IS REASONABLE GIVEN DEW POINT TEMPS THERE IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S...AIR TEMPS IN THE 90S TO NEAR 100 AND INCREASING MID AND UPPER LEVEL WINDS. WILL MENTION "SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE" IN THOSE FORECAST ZONES FOR THIS EVENING. WITH NO MECHANISM TO SCOUR OUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE NEAR FUTURE...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON TAP THROUGH DAY 7. TEMPS ACROSS THE CWA WILL BE AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. CA ABQ BB 065/094 066/093 065 50223 SAF BB 058/089 058/088 059 50323 TCC BB 067/095 068/096 068 50302 .ABQ...NONE.
NMZ001>021-026-152345- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1240 PM MDT SUN JUL 15 2001 NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT...A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER SOME OF THE TEXAS BORDER COUNTIES. 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...LOW. IN LOS ALAMOS COUNTY...MODERATE. IN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY...MODERATE. WEATHER SYNOPSIS...ANOTHER CROP OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH SOME POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE OVER SOME OF THE TEXAS BORDER COUNTIES WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE IS MOST UNSTABLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED. COUNTIES IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO WHERE SKYWARN SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... UNION...HARDING...QUAY...AND CURRY. COUNTIES IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO WHERE SKYWARN SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... NONE. COUNTIES IN WESTERN AND NORTHERN 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.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
Four children received minor injuries when caught in a large dust devil near Magdalena.
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, July 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: 5258604.