Winds reached sustained speeds of 40-45 mph with gusts of 50-55 mph across east central and northeast New Mexico.
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 episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
Winds reached sustained speeds of 40-45 mph with gusts of 50-55 mph across east central and northeast New Mexico.
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 4, 9:13 AM MST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1013 AM MDT SUN MAY 4 2003
NORTHEAST QUARTER UPGRADED TO A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THIS
AFTERNOON. GUSTS OF 45-50 MPH OBSERVED AT THE RATON AIRPORT THIS
PAST HOUR. MAIN CONCERN WILL BE THE I-25 CORRIDOR EAST OF THE
SANGRES AND NRN EC PLAINS. TUCUMCARI PROFILER INDICATING 45-50KT
WINDS EXTENDING THROUGH FAIRLY DEEP LAYER JUST ABOVE SURFACE...AND
THIS ALSO REFLECTED IN THE FDX-88D VWP. ELSEWHERE... WIND ADVISORY
IN PLACE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA ALONG AND EAST OF THE
CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. LOWERED MAX TEMPS A FEW DEGREES ACROSS THE
NORTHWEST...OTHERWISE CHANGES TO PREVIOUS FORECAST WERE FEW AND
MINOR. KJ
.ABQ...HIGH WIND WARNING THIS AFTERNOON NMZ005>007-011>013-
WIND ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON NMZ004-010-016>021-026-
RED FLAG WARNING THIS AFTERNOON NMZ103-104-106>108NMZ001>021-026-051200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT SUN MAY 4 2003 ...WIND ADVISORY TODAY FROM THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS EASTWARD... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED TODAY FROM THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS EASTWARD TO THE TEXAS BORDER. VISIBILITIES WILL BE REDUCED IN BLOWING DUST. CROSS WINDS WILL PRESENT A PROBLEM FOR MOTORISTS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON NORTH-SOUTH ROADS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE EAST TUESDAY. ALTHOUGH WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THIS UPCOMING WEEK... PARTICULARLY STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
5 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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, May 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: 5355725, 5355726, 5355727, 5355728, 5355729.