Mountain peaks across west central and north central New Mexico were buffeted by sustained high winds.
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The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
Mountain peaks across west central and north central New Mexico were buffeted by sustained high winds.
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 11, 1:53 PM MST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 253 PM MDT TUE MAY 11 2004 .DISCUSSION...NO CHANGES PLANNED TO PREVIOUS HIGH WIND WARNING/WIND ADVISORY AREAS FOR TONIGHT. PROBABLY JUMPED THE GUN ON THE WIND ADVISORY FOR THE UPPER GILA REGION AND SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS EARLIER...SURPRISE...BUT WILL NOT CANCEL AT THIS POINT. 60-70 KNOT MID-LEVEL WIND MAX PASSING OVER NC/NW NEW MEXICO TONIGHT...SO POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STRONG OVERNIGHT GUSTS ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN. ALSO WATCHING DEVELOPING CONVECTION ACROSS THE FAR EAST NEAR/AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE BUT PLAN TO KEEP ZERO POPS FROM 00Z ON AS ANY TSRA SHOULD BE EAST OF NEW MEXICO BY 600 PM MDT. OTHERWISE...FAST SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER THE AREA TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY WILL BECOME MORE WEST-NORTHWEST BY THURSDAY AS THE BROAD UPPER TROUGH OVER THE INTERMOUNTAIN REGION TRANSLATES SLOWLY EASTWARD. MAJORITY OF OUR CWA WILL REMAIN ON THE DRY/WINDY SIDE OF THIS SYSTEM...WITH JUST SOME TOKEN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER WEDNESDAY/WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS AN EMBEDDED SHORT-WAVE ROTATES THROUGH BASE OF THE TROUGH AND ACROSS THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. PREVIOUS SHIFT TRIMMED BACK THE COVERAGE OF ISOLD POPS ACROSS THE FAR NORTH DURING THE WEDNESDAY PERIOD WHICH WAS A GOOD CALL - TOO DARN DRY. BAGGY TROUGH HANGING BACK OVER OUR REGION FOR THURSDAY WITH A FEW WEAK WAVES RIPPLING THROUGH. MEANWHILE...A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO FAR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO PROBABLY THURSDAY MORNING PROVIDING A SHALLOW UPSLOPE ZONE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST THURSDAY AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...THERE ARE STILL SOME SIGNIFICANT TIMING DIFFERENCES AMONG THE MODELS WITH THIS RESPECT TO THIS FEATURE. ETA ALTHOUGH SLOWER THAN ITS PREVIOUS RUNS...STILL SEEMS OVERLY AGGRESSIVE DRIVING THE FRONT SOUTHWARD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING GIVEN DEEP MIXING AND STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. GFS AT LEAST 12-18 HOURS SLOWER AND AM BEGINNING TO THINK THIS MIGHT BE MORE CORRECT. GFS BRINGS THE FRONT INTO THE NORTHEAST THURSDAY NIGHT. FOR NOW WILL SPLIT THE MIDDLE ON FRONTAL TIMING. INCLUDED A LOW POP ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PLAINS THURSDAY/THURSDAY NIGHT. NO BIG CHANGES TO THE LONG RANGE. IF THE SLOWER GFS FRONTAL TIMING COMES TO PASS THEN WE MAY NEED TO INCLUDE POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST FOR FRIDAY DUE TO PROXIMITY OF BOUNDARY....OTHERWISE DRY. LITTLE MORE CONVECTIVELY ACTIVE BY THE WEEKEND AS MOISTURE BEGINS TO INCREASE AND DAYTIME TEMPS WARM. KJ && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FARMINGTON................ 045/074 038/072 037 41010 GALLUP.................... 042/072 033/070 030 41000 GRANTS.................... 045/075 037/073 032 41000 GLENWOOD.................. 046/083 040/080 041 41000 CHAMA..................... 034/066 028/063 026 41010 LOS ALAMOS................ 047/071 038/067 034 41000 RED RIVER................. 039/063 027/060 025 41011 TAOS...................... 042/071 034/069 033 41010 SANTA FE.................. 046/074 038/070 036 41000 SANTA FE AIRPORT.......... 047/077 040/072 038 41000 ESPANOLA.................. 045/079 039/075 039 41000 ALBUQUERQUE HEIGHTS....... 053/080 050/075 049 41000 ALBUQUERQUE VALLEY........ 048/083 044/077 043 41000 ALBUQUERQUE FOOTHILLS..... 050/078 047/073 046 41000 ALBUQUERQUE WEST MESA..... 054/082 048/074 047 41000 SOCORRO................... 054/085 045/081 045 41000 SANDIA PARK/CEDAR CREST... 050/076 042/070 042 41000 MORIARTY/ESTANCIA......... 047/080 040/073 037 41000 CARRIZOZO................. 053/085 047/080 041 41000 RUIDOSO................... 049/078 049/074 039 41000 RATON..................... 042/077 038/070 035 41011 LAS VEGAS................. 044/075 040/069 038 41000 ROY....................... 048/078 045/071 041 41000 CLAYTON................... 051/081 046/069 042 4100- SANTA ROSA................ 054/088 051/081 046 41000 TUCUMCARI................. 056/088 054/079 047 41000 FORT SUMNER............... 055/088 054/083 048 41000 CLOVIS.................... 056/089 056/081 047 41000 PORTALES.................. 056/090 055/081 048 41000 ROSWELL................... 057/092 057/088 052 41000 && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HIGH WIND WARNING TIL 02Z NMZ002-004-005-008- WIND ADVISORY TIL 02Z NMZ001-003-006-007-009>012-014-015-016-017-026- RED FLAG WARNING TIL 02Z THIS EVENING NMZ101>108 RED FLAG WARNING WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 103-104-106-107-108 BELOW 8000 FEET FIRE WEATHER WATCH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON NMZ105 BELOW 8000 FEET && 41
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT TUE MAY 11 2004 NMZ001>021-026-121200- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-NORTHWEST PLATEAU-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- WESTCENTRAL MOUNTAINS- 600 AM MDT MON MAY 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MOST OF CENTRAL...NORTHERN AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO...MAINLY NEAR AND WEST OF A LINE FROM RATON TO CLINES CORNERS...FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ALSO ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE COUNTIES BORDERING THE TEXAS LINE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HAIL TO ONE HALF INCH OR SLIGHTLY LARGER...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA BETWEEN ABOUT 200 PM AND 700 PM MDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...GUSTY WINDS ARE FORECAST AGAIN FOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA AND SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS COULD APPROACH WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. REMEMBER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 43
2 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 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 2004
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: 5391454, 5391455.