Thunderstorm Wind, Union
- When
- May 20, 8:45 PM MST to 8:50 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, Pasamonte
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.300, -103.733
Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 20, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 May 20, 6:15 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 6:15 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
715 PM MDT SUN MAY 20 2001
PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THE STRONG COLD FRONT OVER COLORADO IS GOING TO
BE OVER NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO TONIGHT. WIND SPEEDS FROM AFTERNOON OBS
SHOW SUSTAINED 40MPH WITH GUSTS IN THE UPPER 50S. MAKES SENSE TO
HIGHLIGHT WIND ADVISORY AND HIGH WIND WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST
NEW MEXICO. THE FRONT WILL PLUNGE SOUTH AND WILL REVISIT THE SCENARIO
LATER TONIGHT TO POSSIBLY ADD COUNTIES ACROSS EASTERN AND SOUTHEAST
NEW MEXICO IF NEED BE.
OTHERWISE...WILL LET THE PREVIOUS FORECAST RIDE.
.ABQ...HIGH WIND WARNING TILL MIDNIGHT...NMZ006-007...
...WIND ADVISORY TILL MIDNIGHT NMZ004-005-011>013.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 20 to 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 20, 2001
- High Wind in Colorado, May 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 20, 2001
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 20, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 20, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 20, 2001
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 2001
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: 5244420.