New Mexico, 2001

Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 19, 2001

June 19, 2001 · NWS ABQ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 19, 3:35 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:35 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
435 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2001

COLD FRONT HAS BACKED OFF A BIT FROM LATE AM POSITION...AND BECOME A
BIT MORE DIFFUSE. BOUNDARY WHICH BACKED UP TO ROUGHLY THE CENTRAL
MOUNTAIN CHAIN...N OF SCENTRAL MTNS...HAS SPARKED ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH RELATIVELY MEAGER MOISTURE. FRONT WILL LARGELY
WASH OUT LATER TONIGHT OR EARLY WED...BUT DIFFUSE BOUNDARY STILL A
POTENTIAL IN NE LATER WED TO HELP WITH SOME CONVECTION. IN VICINITY
OF AND A LITTLE WAYS EITHER SIDE OF CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN SHOULD BE
JUST EBNOUGH RESIDUAL MOISTURE THAT WITH HEATING AND TERRAIN SHOULD
STILL GENERATE AT LEAST ISOLATED TO WIDELY SEPARATED CONVECTION PM
2ND PD. MODELS NOT ALL AVAILABLE FOR GUIDANCE TODAY...ESPECIALLY NGM
AND SOME FIELDS IN AVN...SO CONFIDENCE NOT EXTREMELY HIGH WITH THIS
PACKAGE. GOING AS MUCH WITH CLIMO AND IN SOME ZONES PERSISTANCE AND
JUST GENERAL TRENDS WITH POSN OF UPPER HI...FRONT...LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE AND TERRAIN. STAYED WITH OVERALL TREND OF THE PREVIOUS
EXTENDED...THOUGH BELIEVE CHANCES OF CONVECTION SLIP A BIT AFTER THU
AND FRI WHEN EFFECTS OF STRONGER FRONTAL PASSAGE ACROSS NM LESSEN AND
ANY UPSLOPE AND INCREASED LOW LEVEL MOISTURE DIMINISH. 43

ABQ BB 063/094 064/090 064 431-1
SAF BB 056/090 057/084 057 43111
TCC BB 063/090 064/076 063 43223

.ABQ...NONE.

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 19 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:32 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Bernalillo

When
June 19, 7:34 PM MST
Where
Bernalillo County, Albuquerque Intl Arpt
Measured
53 kt (61 mph)
Reported by
OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Coordinates
35.050, -106.650

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind
Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

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: 5245652.