Another record breaking snow event for west Texas and southeastern New Mexico as an upper level storm system and a cold front move across the region. Six to eight inches of snow in the Van Horn area resulted in Interstate 10 being closed between Fort Hancock and Fort Stockton and Interstate 20 being closed between Pecos and Fort Hancock.
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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 MAF wrote it up.
Another record breaking snow event for west Texas and southeastern New Mexico as an upper level storm system and a cold front move across the region. Six to eight inches of snow in the Van Horn area resulted in Interstate 10 being closed between Fort Hancock and Fort Stockton and Interstate 20 being closed between Pecos and Fort Hancock. At least 200 tractor trailers were stranded in Van Horn and Pecos when those interstates closed. Schools across west Texas and southeastern New Mexico closed for at least a day. Locations across the region received anywhere from an inch to eleven inches of snow.
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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 22, 11:42 PM MST, 19 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eleven inches of snow fell at Queen, NM.
Seven inches of snow fell in Nadine.
Five inches of snow fell in Jal.
Four to six inches of snow fell across Eddy County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, January 2007
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: 13272, 13276, 13279, 13274.