Winter Storm, Northwest Mountains Including Jemez
- When
- February 27, 9:00 PM MST to February 28, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Northwest Mountains Including Jemez forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Winter Storm in New Mexico, February 27 to 28, 2003
Heavy snow fell over night into the next day along the northern New Mexico border between Chama and Red River which both reported 10-13 inches. Snow tapered off quickly towards the south with less than 6 inches at Brazos Lodge and ski areas south of Red River in Taos County.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 fell over night into the next day along the northern New Mexico border between Chama and Red River which both reported 10-13 inches. Snow tapered off quickly towards the south with less than 6 inches at Brazos Lodge and ski areas south of Red River in Taos County. Snow of 3-4 inches reached as far south as the Sandia Mountains just northeast of Albuquerque.
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 Feb 27, 9:00 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 9:00 PM MST, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
900 PM MST THU FEB 27 2003
MINOR CHANGES TO THE CURRENT FORECAST. BASED ON RADAR AND REPORTS
FROM GRAND JUNCTION OFFICE BEEFED UP SNOW AMOUNTS OVER OUR NRN
MOUNTAINS AND NW PLATEAU. THANKS FOR COORDINATION GJT. OTHER
ADVISORIES AS IS. LOWERED WINDS MOST SRN ZONES AND ADJUSTED IN THE E.
MINOR TEMP CHANGES.
.ABQ...WINTER STORM WRNG TONIGHT THRU FRI NRN MTNS NMZ002-004.
SNOW ADVY TONIGHT THRU FRI NMZ001-003-005>008-010-011.
CHJHazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 6:00 AM MST, 15 hours before
NMZ001>021-026-271257- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MST THU FEB 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE NEXT IN A SERIES OF PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN ARIZONA THIS AFTERNOON AND PASS OVER CENTRAL NEW MEXICO TONIGHT. LOOK FOR ACCUMULATING SNOWS TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THIS EVENING... FAVORING THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF WEST CENTRAL...CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO DURING THE OVERNIGHT. SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS ARE LIKELY NEAR AND ABOVE 7500 FEET. EVEN A FEW INCHES OF WET SNOW COULD ACCUMULATE ALONG PARTS OF THE MID AND UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU. WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND SNOW ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN POSTED FOR THESE AREAS. OTHERWISE...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHERN AREAS FRIDAY AS YET ANOTHER DISTURBANCE CROSSES NORTHERN NEW MEXICO FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. FOR SATURDAY AND BEYOND...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO ARE ENCOURAGED TO CALL NWS ALBUQUERQUE WITH SNOW REPORTS AT 1-888-386-7637. KJ
Event by event
2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Winter Storm, Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- When
- February 27, 9:00 PM MST to February 28, 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Sangre de Cristo Mountains 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
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, February 27, 2003
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, February 27, 2003
- Winter Storm in North Carolina, February 27, 2003
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Jersey, February 27 to 28, 2003
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Maryland, February 27 to 28, 2003
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in Delaware, February 27 to 28, 2003
- Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, February 27 to 28, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, February 27 to 28, 2003
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, February 27 to 28, 2003
- Ice Storm in North Carolina, February 27, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, February 27, 2003
- Winter Weather in Utah, February 27 to 28, 2003
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, February 2003
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: 5343555, 5343556.