Several periods of heavy snow produced amounts ranging from 4 to 6 inches at the lower elevations and heavier 10 to 14 inch amounts on the peaks across the north central mountains and the northeast plains. The first burst caught the areas from Chama to Taos and Red River while the second burst provided heavy snow to the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at Angel Fire eastward into…
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.
Several periods of heavy snow produced amounts ranging from 4 to 6 inches at the lower elevations and heavier 10 to 14 inch amounts on the peaks across the north central mountains and the northeast plains. The first burst caught the areas from Chama to Taos and Red River while the second burst provided heavy snow to the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at Angel Fire eastward into the far northeast plains at Folsom and Des Moines.
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 Mar 18, 9:40 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
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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, March 2006
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5492895, 5492896, 5492893, 5492894.