Winter Storm in New Mexico, November 27 to 28, 2001

Name: Winter Storm in New Mexico, November 27 to 28, 2001
Start: 2001-11-27T18:00
End: 2001-11-28T06:00
Location: New Mexico

November 27 to 28, 2001 · NWS ABQ · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

Heavy snow of 6 to 8 inches fell across the Sacramento and Capitan Mountains in the season's first strong storm for the area of south central New Mexico.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 happened

The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.

Heavy snow of 6 to 8 inches fell across the Sacramento and Capitan Mountains in the season's first strong storm for the area of south central New Mexico.

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 Nov 27, 3:30 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 27, 3:30 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
330 PM MST TUE NOV 27 2001

MODELS IN AGREEMENT TAKING UPR LOW THROUGH ECENTRAL AZ AND ACROSS
BOOTHEEL OVERNIGHT.  LATEST FORECAST TRACK OF UPPER LOW LOOKS MORE
FAVORABLE FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OVER GILA...PERHAPS LESS SO OVER
PORTIONS OF ECENTRAL...HOWEVER RADAR SHOWS GOOD AREA OF PCPN THERE
ATTM.  SOME POTENTIAL FOR WRAP AROUND PCPN SPCLY SCNTRAL AND SE WED
AS LOW TRACKS INTO PERMIAN BASIN/BIG BEND.  ADVISORY CRITERIA WINDS
STILL POSSIBLE MID RIO GRANDE VALLEY BASED ON LATE AFTN POSITION OF
UPPER LOW...SHOULD BE DIMINISHING AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH LATEST RUC
INDICATING NLY GRAD BY THEN.

BREEZY THURS AND FRI AS COUPLE OF SHORT WAVES CROSS N. SOME COOLING
POSSIBLE AGAIN SAT/SUN.

ABQ EB 020/035 020/041 022 4851
SAF BB 008/030 013/036 015 485--
TCC EB 014/028 017/043 019 48720

.ABQ...WRNGS...WINTER STORM WARNING TNGT SCNTRL MTNS
               ZNS 16,17 AND 26.
       ADVYS...SNOW ADVY CNTRL MTNS AND ECNTRL PLNS
               TONIGHT ZNS 10>13,18,20,AND 21.
               SNOW ADVY SW MTNS AND SE TNGT ZNS 14 AND 19.
               WND ADVY MID RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS
               EVE ZNS 9 AND 15.

Event by event

3 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Storm, Capitan/Northern Sacramento Mountains / Sc Lincoln

When: November 27, 6:00 PM MST to November 28, 6:00 AM MST
Where: Capitan/Northern Sacramento Mountains / Sc Lincoln forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

Winter Storm, Guadalupe Mountains of Chaves County / X Sw Chaves

When: November 27, 6:00 PM MST to November 28, 6:00 AM MST
Where: Guadalupe Mountains of Chaves County / X Sw Chaves forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

Winter Storm, Lincoln County High Plains/Hondo Valley / Lincoln Except Sc

When: November 27, 6:00 PM MST to November 28, 6:00 AM MST
Where: Lincoln County High Plains/Hondo Valley / Lincoln Except Sc forecast zone
Reported by: OFFICIAL NWS OBS.

What these are

Winter Storm: A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.

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

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in New Mexico in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in New Mexico, November 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: 5274601, 5274665, 5274666.