High winds gusting 60-65 mph swept over the ridges and adjacent eastern highlands of the central and south central mountains.
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.
High winds gusting 60-65 mph swept over the ridges and adjacent eastern highlands of the central and south central mountains.
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 22, 11:00 AM MST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1100 AM MST SAT NOV 22 2003 .UPDATE...COLD AIR APPEARS TO BE WELL ENTRENCHED AT CLAYTON AND WINDS HAVE TURNED EASTERLY AT TUCUMCARI. UPDATE TO ZONESWAS MAINLY FOR CLAYTON AND ROY TEMPERATURES. ADDED 10 POPS TO THOSE ZONES AS WELL DUE TO LOW CLOUDS IN THE AREA. ALREADY SNOWING AT FARMINGTON AND INCREASED THE POPS THERE SLIGHTLY. WHAT PRECIP FALLS WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE TO BE TODAY AND THIS EVENING. MODELS SHOWING SOME ATMOSPHERE BECOMING VERY STABLE TONIGHT. PRECIP WILL HAVE TO FALL OUT OF SHALLOW COLD AIR MASS TONIGHT. WILL LEAVE WND ADV AND HIGH WIND WARNING AS IS. JWS .PREV DISCUSSION...WHILE GFS SFC PATN AT 06Z SEEMS A BETTER FIT WITH ANALYSIS...WILL STICK WITH A COMPROMISE PSTN FOR SFC LOW WHICH KEEPS ZNS 6 AND 7 OUT OF ADVY TODAY...COUNTING ON AN ABRUPT CHANGE IN DIRECTION TO NLY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AS THE FRONT LURKING OVER THE CO/KS PLNS SURGES INTO NE NM. HOWEVER...WINDS COULD WELL BE CLOSE TO CRITERIA. REMAINDER OF HIGHLIGHTS LOOK ON TARGET...CHANGES RESTRICTED TO MAKING ADVY POSTED FOR WRN/NRN MTNS AND RIO GRANDE VLY FOR TODAY AND THIS EVENING AS WINDS CURRENTLY REACHING OUR ADVY CRITERIA AT KINW...THEREFORE KGUP MAY VERIFY MIDMORNING OR THEREAFTER. WILL ALSO ADD QUAY...CURRY AND ROOSEVELT CNTYS TO ADVY WITH TCC PROFILER WINDS 35KT JUST OFF THE DECK ATTM. TODAY/S MOS POPS LOW...BUT SOME CONCERN REGARDING POTENTIAL FOR LIGHT SHWRS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONTAL BNDRY FARTHER S AND E INTO MID RIO GRANDE VLY/SANDIA AND MANZANO MTNS. WILL ADD SLGT CHCS TO REMAINDER OF ZN 8 AS WELL AS ZNS 3-9-10 FOR THE AFTN. PER PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...SNOW ADVY FOR NRN MTNS MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. AN INCH OR TWO NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION ALG THE CO BORDER ABV 8000 FT TODAY HOWEVER. OTRW SOME BREEZES POSSIBLE MONDAY AS GFS INDICATES A CHANGE IN TIMING/PSTN OF THE PREVIOUSLY FORECASTED SHORTWAVE SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY. FAST W-NW FLOW NOW CARRY WEAK SHORTWAVES FARTHER TO THE SOUTH...AND A FEW SHOWERS COULD DEVELOP AS EARLY AS MONDAY NIGHT NRN/WRN MTNS. WILL TRIM BACK AREAL COVERAGE FOR WED. WEAK RIDGING THURS THEN ZONAL FLOW MAY ALLOW FOR MORE DISTURBANCES TO PASS OVER STATE. ANOTHER CDFNT NE LATE SAT/SUN AS MASSIVE UPR LOW DVLPS ACROSS PAC NW. && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WRNG THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NMZ010-011-016-017-026- WIND ADV TODAY NMZ001- WIND ADV TODAY AND THIS EVENING NMZ002>004-008-009-014-015- WIND ADV THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NMZ005-012-013-018-019-020-021- &&
NMZ001>021-026-231300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MST SAT NOV 22 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY A STORM SYSTEM WILL CROSS NEW MEXICO TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY...BRINGING THE COLDEST AIR SO FAR THIS SEASON. IN ADDITION...STRONG WINDS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND ADJACENT HIGH PLAINS WHERE WESTERLY WINDS WILL REACH SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MOST OF THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA REMAINS UNDER A WIND ADVISORY TODAY AND INTO TONIGHT. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAY RESTRICT VISIBILITIES AND STRONG CROSSWINDS MAY AFFECT MOTORISTS ON NORTH TO SOUTH ORIENTED HIGHWAYS SUCH AS INTERSTATE 25. ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...A TOTAL OF 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE BY SUNDAY MORNING...ESPECIALLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND ALONG THE COLORADO BORDER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. 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.
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, November 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: 5371763, 5371764, 5372059, 5372060, 5372061.