Heavy Snow, Sangre de Cristo Mountains
- When
- January 5, 10:00 PM MST to January 6, 5:00 AM MST
- Where
- Sangre de Cristo Mountains forecast zone
- Reported by
- Official NWS Observations
Heavy Snow in New Mexico, January 5 to 6, 2007
Brief heavy snow of 4 to 7 inches was reported across the mountain communities of north central New Mexico as an upper level system passed quickly overhead.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
Brief heavy snow of 4 to 7 inches was reported across the mountain communities of north central New Mexico as an upper level system passed quickly overhead.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Strong Wind in California, January 5, 2007
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, January 5, 2007
- Avalanche in Wyoming, January 5, 2007
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, January 5, 2007
- Flooding in Ohio, January 5 to 8, 2007
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Washington, January 5 to 6, 2007
- Wildfire and High Wind in California, January 5 to 8, 2007
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, January 5, 2007
- Tornado in Mississippi, January 5, 2007
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, January 5, 2007
- Damaging Winds in Florida, January 5, 2007
- High Wind in Montana, January 5 to 6, 2007
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, January 2007
Sources
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: 13482.