A Pacific storm system moved across southwestern New Mexico and into far west Texas with cold air already in place at the surface providing a favorable environment for snow.
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 Pacific storm system moved across southwestern New Mexico and into far west Texas with cold air already in place at the surface providing a favorable environment for snow.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A maximum snowfall of 6 inches was reported at San Augustin Pass. Other reports included 3.5 inches 3 miles west southwest of Organ and between 1.5 and 2.5 inches in the Las Cruces area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, December 2009
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: 202404.