1 dust devil, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Apr 28, 1:06 PM MST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 206 PM MDT MON APR 28 2003 AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS BEGINNING TO FIRE OVER SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. WITH DECENT CU FIELD BECOMING EVIDENT ISOLATED CONVECTION REMAINS A POSSIBILITY INTO THE EVENING HOURS...ESPECIALLY ALONG A CONVERGENCE ZONE ACROSS THE AREA AND OVER THE HIGHER DEWPOINTS ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE. FOR THAT REASON HAVE INCLUDED ISOLATED POPS IN THE ZONES FOR THIS EVENING OVER THAT AREA. THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM LOCATED OFF THE NRN CA COAST IS NOT EXPECTED TO DIG MUCH THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. A LOW AMPLITUDE TROF AND ITS ASSOCIATED VORT MAX IS EXPECTED TO SWING AROUND THE MAIN UPR LVL LOW AND EJECT OUT ACROSS THE STATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. BRINGING ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS OF THE STATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. DRYLINE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS WILL NOT PLAY AS MUCH OF A FACTOR DUE TO THE STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS...WILL BE HARD FOR THE DRYLINE TO RETREAT VERY FAR INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO...SO HAVE LEFT POPS OUT OF THE EAST. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEKEND APPEARS DRY AND WARM...WITH BREEZY TO WINDY AFTERNOONS. ANOTHER TROF IS PROGD TO TRAVERSE THE STATE ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY. AT THIS TIME THIS ONE APPEARS TO BE MUCH DEEPER AND FARTHER SOUTH THAT THE FIRST ONE SO AS IT STANDS NOW STATE WILL HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AT PRECIP. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH MID LVL MOISTURE IT CAN DRAW UP FROM THE SOUTH. WILL WAIT AND SEE. ABQ BB 049/078 048/073 042 16000 SAF BB 041/076 039/068 032 16000 TCC BB 053/083 054/078 042 16100 .ABQ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH TUESDAY NMZ101>108. MARTIN
NMZ001>021-026-291200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT MON APR 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS THE EASTERN BORDER COUNTIES FROM UNION COUNTY TO ROOSEVELT COUNTY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
A large dust devil swept out of an open field and damaged the roof and side wall of grocery store in Edgewood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, April 2003
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: 5354106.