A strong upper level short wave trough with attendant cold front dropped southward into New Mexico and brought up to 6 inches overnight to the southern Sacramento 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 EPZ wrote it up.
A strong upper level short wave trough with attendant cold front dropped southward into New Mexico and brought up to 6 inches overnight to the southern Sacramento Mountains.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Six inches of snow overnight was reported by law enforcement from Cloudcroft north to Mescalero.
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, November 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: 6295.