Gusty winds whipped central and east central New Mexico downing several power lines across Curry County and causing damage to a number of school district maintenance buildings in Clovis.
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.
Gusty winds whipped central and east central New Mexico downing several power lines across Curry County and causing damage to a number of school district maintenance buildings in Clovis.
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 Jan 1, 3:00 AM MST, 3 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 300 AM MST SUN JAN 1 2006 .DISCUSSION...DEWPOINTS HAVE COME UP LAST 24 HOURS PER MODEL PREDICTION OF A LAYER OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM. THE NAM...WHICH AS BEEN TOO HIGH WITH IT/S SURFACE DEWPOINT FORECASTS LATELY...IS AGAIN WETTER THAN THE GFS IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER FOR THIS AFTERNOON. THE GFS SHOWS THE LOWER LEVELS DRYING OUT OVER THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON...BUT DOES KEEP AN AREA OF HIGHER RH VALUES OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. THEREFORE THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR TODAY WILL BE CONVERTED TO A RED FLAG WARNING. NO CHANGE ANTICIPATED TO THE WIND ADVISORY AT THIS TIME. THERE WILL LIKELY BE A FEW SPOTS OVER THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY/WEST CENTRAL/SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS THAT APPROACH/EXCEED WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA BUT WITH THE COLD ADVECTION AND MODEL FORECAST OF DECREASING WINDS ALOFT AS THE DAY PROGRESSES WILL NOT ADD THOSE AREAS TO THE EXISTING ADVISORY. NORTHWEST FLOW AND A TIGHT SURFACE GRADIENT TONIGHT MAY KEEP WINDS BLOWING AT FAVORED AREAS ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND ACROSS THE PLAINS. WILL LEAVE TO LATER SHIFTS TO EXTEND ADVISORY IF NECESSARY INTO THE EVENING HOURS. UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BRIEFLY MONDAY WITH CLOUDS SPREADING FROM WEST TO EAST OVER THE STATE DURING THE DAY. TRIMMED BACK POPS NORTHWEST FOR MONDAY MORNING...BUT KEPT INTACT FOR THE AFTERNOON. HELD ONTO SOME SLGT CHANCE POPS TUESDAY NIGHT NORTHWEST/NORTHCENTRAL WITH APPARENTLY ONE LAST SHORTWAVE. DRY THEREAFTER. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FARMINGTON...................... 50 23 53 32 / 20 0 10 20 GALLUP.......................... 51 19 58 29 / 10 0 10 10 GRANTS.......................... 53 19 57 27 / 10 0 5 10 GLENWOOD........................ 60 23 65 29 / 5 5 0 5 CHAMA........................... 40 11 45 19 / 40 5 10 30 LOS ALAMOS...................... 49 23 51 29 / 20 0 5 20 RED RIVER....................... 42 15 44 21 / 40 0 0 10 TAOS............................ 45 10 49 19 / 30 0 0 20 SANTA FE........................ 47 18 51 27 / 10 0 0 5 SANTA FE AIRPORT................ 51 23 53 29 / 10 0 0 10 ESPANOLA........................ 53 16 54 25 / 20 0 5 10 ALBUQUERQUE HEIGHTS............. 55 31 57 34 / 10 0 0 10 ALBUQUERQUE VALLEY.............. 56 24 58 29 / 10 0 0 10 ALBUQUERQUE FOOTHILLS........... 50 28 54 31 / 10 0 0 10 ALBUQUERQUE WEST MESA........... 55 30 58 29 / 10 0 0 10 SOCORRO......................... 61 25 59 30 / 5 0 0 0 SANDIA PARK/CEDAR CREST......... 48 25 51 26 / 10 0 0 10 MORIARTY/ESTANCIA............... 54 26 56 24 / 5 0 0 0 CARRIZOZO....................... 59 31 61 27 / 0 0 0 0 RUIDOSO......................... 53 29 58 32 / 0 0 0 0 RATON........................... 56 17 56 22 / 5 0 0 5 LAS VEGAS....................... 54 27 58 33 / 5 0 0 5 ROY............................. 60 27 57 32 / 5 0 0 5 CLAYTON......................... 64 29 59 34 / 0 0 0 0 SANTA ROSA...................... 64 27 63 33 / 5 0 0 0 TUCUMCARI....................... 71 30 67 37 / 0 0 0 0 FORT SUMNER..................... 70 29 67 32 / 0 0 0 0 CLOVIS.......................... 71 36 68 37 / 0 0 0 0 PORTALES........................ 72 35 67 35 / 0 0 0 0 ROSWELL......................... 72 35 71 34 / 0 0 0 0 && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR NMZ004-NMZ005-NMZ010- NMZ011-NMZ012-NMZ013-NMZ016-NMZ017-NMZ018. RED FLAG WARNING FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR NMZ103-NMZ104-NMZ106-NMZ107-NMZ108. WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR NMZ006-NMZ007-NMZ019- NMZ020-NMZ021-NMZ026. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MST SUN JAN 1 2006 NMZ001>021-026-021300- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-HARDING COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- 600 AM MST SUN JAN 1 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM MST THIS EVENING FOR THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS. SUSTAINED WESTERLY WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. A RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 1100 AM TO 600 PM MST TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW COULD ACCUMULATE TODAY OVER THE NORTHWEST AND NORTHCENTRAL MOUNTAINS. MOST OF THE SNOW WILL LIKELY FALL AT ELEVATIONS AT OR ABOVE 7000 FEET...WITH GREATER AMOUNTS ENCOUNTERED CLOSER TO THE COLORADO BORDER AND IN THE HIGH PASSES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SOME BREEZES ARE EXPECTED CENTRAL AND EAST AGAIN MONDAY WITH AN UPTICK IN WINDS ON TUESDAY DUE TO ANOTHER WEATHER DISTURBANCE SCHEDULED TO RACE THROUGH SOUTHERN COLORADO AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. SMALL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS BY MIDMORNING TUESDAY. REMEMBER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS BY CALLING 1.888.386.7637 OR BY VISITING THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE WEB SITE AND CLICKING ON SUBMIT STORM REPORTS. 99
7 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 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, January 2006
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