An impressive late season storm brought high winds around Los Alamos, Clines Corners and Ruidoso on the afternoon through late evening of the 19th.
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.
An impressive late season storm brought high winds around Los Alamos, Clines Corners and Ruidoso on the afternoon through late evening of the 19th.
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 Jun 19, 2:31 AM MST, 10 hours 29 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 331 AM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 ...WINDY WITH CRITICAL TO EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TODAY... .DISCUSSION...AN UNSEASONABLE AND DYNAMIC WEATHER PATTERN WILL UNFOLD FOR NEW MEXICO TODAY. ONE LOBE/VORTEX HAS CHURNED ITS WAY NORTHWARD TO THE SASKATCHEWAN AND ALBERTA BORDER WHILE A SECOND VIGOROUS PIECE OF UPPER ENERGY IS DIVING SOUTH TOWARD THE FOUR CORNERS. A 100-110KT JET STREAK IS ROUNDING THE BASE OF THE LATTER PIECE OF ENERGY AS EVIDENCED BY 250MB PROGS. SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ARE STRENGTHENING THROUGH THE MIDDLE LAYERS OF THE TROPOSPHERE INTO NEW MEXICO WITH 30-40KT OF FLOW ALREADY PRESENT AT 700MB. THIS TREND OF INCREASING MID LEVEL FLOW WILL CONTINUE INTO THE AFTERNOON AS A SURFACE LOW DEEPENS IN EASTERN COLORADO. LAPSE RATES HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY STEEP THE PAST FEW DAYS WITH MIXING HEIGHTS EXCEEDING 500MB IN MANY LOCALES OF THE FORECAST AREA. WHILE MIXING WILL NOT BE QUITE AS EFFICIENT TODAY...STILL PLENTY OF MOMENTUM ALOFT WILL BE TAPPED WITH MIXING HEIGHTS RANGING BETWEEN 600 AND 500MB PER MODEL FORECAST SOUNDINGS. BOTTOM LINE IS THAT IT WILL BE VERY WINDY AREAWIDE...AND WITH SUCH DRY AND PARCHED ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS THE BLOSSOMING FIRE ACTIVITY FROM YESTERDAY WILL LIKELY SEE MORE RAPID GROWTH. WILL LEAVE WIND AND FIRE WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS AS IS. ANY PRECIPITATION TODAY WILL HAVE TO COME FROM CLOSER WITHIN THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WHERE SUFFICIENT MOISTURE WILL BE...GENERALLY NORTH IN COLORADO AND UTAH. BY THIS EVENING SOME OF THIS WILL GRADUALLY INFILTRATE THE NORTH CENTRAL TO NORTHWESTERN ZONES OF NEW MEXICO...AND SLIGHT CHANCE POPS REMAIN INTACT TO CAPTURE THIS. PRECIP COULD HAVE MORE OF A CONVECTIVE AND SHOWERY LOOK TO IT IN THE EVENING...AND SOME GUSTY WINDS WOULD ACCOMPANY ANY SHOWER ACTIVITY. OTHERWISE WINDS WOULD BE DECREASING AFTER SUNSET. RIDGETOPS WOULD LIKELY STILL BE QUITE GUSTY AT TIMES THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT AS POTENT MID LEVEL JET TRANSITIONS EASTWARD. BY SUNRISE MONDAY THE CENTER OF THE UPPER LOW WOULD BE SWINGING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO. THIS WOULD ALTER WINDS FOR MONDAY...SHIFTING MORE WEST NORTHWESTERLY WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES BEING USHERED IN. BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS WOULD BE FOUND AREAWIDE WITH STRONGEST WINDS STRETCHING FROM THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS TO THE EAST CENTRAL PLAINS. ANY PRECIPITATION WOULD CONTINUE TO BE CONFINED TO THE FAR NORTHERN BORDERLAND OF THE STATE WITH LOW QPF. VERY DRY AIR MASS WOULD FILTER IN FARTHER SOUTH. BY TUESDAY NIGHT THE BACK DOOR SEGMENT OF THE COLD FRONT WILL WORK INTO THE STATE...OFFERING ONLY A SLIGHT UPTICK IN LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. HAVE KEPT IN SOME ISOLATED STORMS IN THE FORECAST MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND INTO THE NORTHEASTERN PLAINS...BUT DEWPOINTS ARE ONLY PROGGED TO CREEP UP INTO THE 30S MAKING IT VERY DIFFICULT TO GET TOO EXCITED. TUESDAY/S TEMPERATURES WILL STILL BE RELATIVELY COOLER THAN WHAT HAS BEEN OCCURRING THE PAST FEW DAYS AND JUST SLIGHTLY BELOW SEASONAL NORMS FOR THE OFFICIAL FIRST DAY OF SUMMER. GOOD NEWS WILL BE THE WINDS WILL FINALLY FALL BELOW THE BREEZY CATEGORY. THROUGH MID AND LATTER PART OF THE WEEK...A RETURN FLOW OFF OF THE GULF OF MEXICO TRIES TO ESTABLISH ITSELF...BUT A DEEP AND LONG- LIVED SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW JUST CANT SEEM TO PERSIST LONG ENOUGH FOR DEEP MOISTURE RETURN IN THE EASTERN PLAINS. EXPECT TO SEE SOME INTRUSIONS INTO THE EASTERN PLAINS EACH NIGHT...BUT PRECIPITATION DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE HARD TO COME BY SINCE DIURNAL MIXING WILL LIKELY SLOSH MOISTURE BACK EAST EACH AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE THE UPPER HIGH WILL TAKE UP RESIDENCE TO OUR SOUTHWEST AND THIS WILL POSE DIFFICULTIES FOR ANY KIND OF NOTEWORTHY BACK DOOR FRONTAL INTRUSIONS. 52 && .AVIATION...WIND SPEEDS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY PICK UP DURING THE MID TO LATE MORNING HOURS TODAY. BY AFTN...SPEEDS OF 20 TO 35KT WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50KT WILL IMPACT ALL OF N AND CENTRAL NM. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NW CORNER OF THE STATE LATE THIS AFTN AND FAR N CENTRAL AND NW NM TONIGHT WILL PRODUCE VERY GUSTY WINDS...BUT NOT MUCH RAIN. CIGS WITH THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN IN THE VFR RANGE IN NEARLY EVERY CASE. SMOKE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN ACROSS CATRON COUNTY TODAY...THOUGH SMOKE CONCENTRATIONS HAVE DECREASED OVERALL. ALSO SMOKE PLUMES FROM A FIRE NEAR THE SANTA FE SKI AND WATERSHED AREAS MAY BE AN AVIATION CONCERN FOR AREAS TO THE E AND NE OR THAT AREA...EVEN A SHORT DISTANCE E OF THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE NE HIGHLANDS. TO THE EAST A LITTLE WAYS FROM THE DENSEST SMOKE WILL BE ACROSS W CENTRAL OR NW CATRON COUNTY WHERE VSBYS MAY OCCASIONALLY BE REDUCED TO 5 MILES OR LESS. NEXT AVIATION DISCUSSION SCHEDULED FOR 21Z. 43 && .FIRE WEATHER...VERY SERIOUS CRITICAL TO EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TO BE THE RULE ACROSS N AND CENTRAL NM TODAY AND LINGER WELL INTO THE EVENING...PROBABLY EVEN LOCALIZED LATE TONIGHT ALONG AND A LITTLE WAYS E OF CENTRAL MTN CHAIN. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE EASTERN HALF OF FCST AREA MONDAY. SO OBVIOUSLY RED FLAG WARNINGS WILL BE MAINTAINED AS PREVIOUSLY ISSUED. MORE SPECIFICALLY...UNSEASONABLY STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH NEARS THE FOUR CORNERS AND A STRONG SURFACE LOW SETS UP IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO. AS A SIGNIFICANT DRY SLOT BISECTS THE STATE FROM SW TO NE...STRONG MIXING WILL HELP TRANSPORT THE DRY AIR AND THE 35 TO 45KT MID LEVEL WIND FLOW TO THE SURFACE. EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AS HUMIDITIES DROP BELOW 10 PERCENT AND 20 FOOT WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH DEVELOP. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN BETWEEN 8 AND 1030 AM MORE AREAS THAN NOT AND LOCALLY MAY LAST UNTIL MIDNIGHT OR AN HOUR OR TWO BEYOND CENTRAL MTN CHAIN ON EAST. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL APPROACH RECORDS FOR THE DATE ACROSS THE PLAINS AS TEMPS REACH LEVELS GENERALLY 7 TO 16 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. HUMIDITY RECOVERIES WILL IMPROVE SOME ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE LATE TONIGHT AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVES EAST ACROSS COLORADO AND THE ASSOCIATED PACIFIC FRONT USHERS IN SOME MEAGER MOISTURE AT LOW LEVELS. HOWEVER...I-40 SOUTHWARD...POOR HUMIDITY RECOVERIES WILL PREVAIL ONCE AGAIN. AS THE UPPER LOW SHIFTS INTO KANSAS AND NEBRASKA ON MONDAY...FLOW WILL BECOME MORE WESTERLY AND NORTHWESTERLY ACROSS NM. WIND SPEEDS WILL DECREASE SIGNIFICANTLY ACROSS THE AREA FROM SUNDAYS VALUES...THOUGH IT WILL REMAIN BREEZY TO WINDY...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. TEMPERATURES WILL BE 5 TO 15 DEGREES COOLER THAN SUNDAYS READINGS. DESPITE THE COOLER TEMPS...HUMIDITY VALUES WILL AGAIN FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH THE ONLY EXCEPTION THERE BEING NEAR THE CO LINE WHERE 15 TO 20 PERCENT MIN RH MAY BE ABLE TO BE REALIZED. THUS RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE CONTINUED FOR EAST HALF. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND T STORMS WILL BE A POTENTIAL FOR FAR NW AND N CENTRAL NM TONIGHT...MAINLY HIGHER TERRAIN...BUT TIME OF ONSET BEING OVERNIGHT SHOULD LIMIT THE DEGREE OF LIGHTNING AND STORM CREATED GUSTY WINDS. STILL...WETTING LEVEL RAINS NOT LIKELY. BACK DOOR FRONT WILL USHER IN SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ACROSS THE PLAINS MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...RESULTING IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR T STORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST. THESE MAY BE A LITTLE WETTER...BUT STILL AMOUNTS SHOULD BE RATHER MEAGER. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER STILL ACROSS THE PLAINS DUE TO THE FRONT. MOST AREAS WILL BE 5 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY. MEANWHILE...LOW LEVEL FLOW ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL VEER AROUND TO THE SOUTHEAST... PULLING SOME GULF MOISTURE INTO SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE. LATEST MODEL RUNS STILL NOT THAT OPTIMISTIC ON MOISTURE RETURN...SO CHANCES OF SHOWERS OR STORMS REMAIN IN QUESTION. AT THIS TIME...IT DOES NOT APPEAR THE MOISTURE WILL MAKE IT MUCH FARTHER WEST THAN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY IF THAT. STILL...LIGHTNING MAY BECOME AN INCREASING RISK DURING THE MID TO LATTER HALF OF THE WORK WEEK...MAINLY EAST HALF. 43 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FARMINGTON...................... 86 49 77 50 / 5 10 10 0 DULCE........................... 81 40 74 39 / 5 20 10 0 CUBA............................ 85 41 75 39 / 0 5 5 0 GALLUP.......................... 82 45 76 44 / 0 5 5 0 EL MORRO........................ 80 46 72 41 / 0 5 0 0 GRANTS.......................... 85 50 78 45 / 0 5 5 0 QUEMADO......................... 85 50 75 48 / 0 0 0 0 GLENWOOD........................ 92 53 88 54 / 0 0 0 0 CHAMA........................... 75 37 67 35 / 5 20 20 10 LOS ALAMOS...................... 83 48 75 47 / 0 5 5 0 PECOS........................... 82 49 75 45 / 0 0 5 0 CERRO/QUESTA.................... 79 41 72 37 / 0 10 10 10 RED RIVER....................... 71 37 64 32 / 0 10 20 10 ANGEL FIRE...................... 74 39 66 34 / 0 5 10 10 TAOS............................ 83 43 75 39 / 0 5 10 0 MORA............................ 79 46 72 42 / 0 5 10 10 ESPANOLA........................ 90 49 81 44 / 0 5 5 0 SANTA FE........................ 87 49 79 46 / 0 0 5 0 SANTA FE AIRPORT................ 89 51 80 48 / 0 0 5 0 ALBUQUERQUE FOOTHILLS........... 92 58 82 55 / 0 0 5 0 ALBUQUERQUE HEIGHTS............. 94 61 83 58 / 0 0 0 0 ALBUQUERQUE VALLEY.............. 95 56 85 53 / 0 0 0 0 ALBUQUERQUE WEST MESA........... 95 57 84 54 / 0 0 0 0 LOS LUNAS....................... 96 56 86 53 / 0 0 0 0 RIO RANCHO...................... 95 58 83 56 / 0 0 0 0 SOCORRO......................... 96 65 89 61 / 0 0 0 0 SANDIA PARK/CEDAR CREST......... 91 49 79 46 / 0 0 5 0 TIJERAS......................... 92 55 82 53 / 0 0 5 0 MORIARTY/ESTANCIA............... 89 53 81 50 / 0 0 5 0 CLINES CORNERS.................. 86 51 76 47 / 0 0 5 0 GRAN QUIVIRA.................... 90 57 83 53 / 0 0 5 0 CARRIZOZO....................... 93 59 88 55 / 0 0 5 0 RUIDOSO......................... 88 57 81 51 / 0 0 5 0 CAPULIN......................... 93 51 75 44 / 0 5 20 10 RATON........................... 93 51 79 44 / 0 5 10 10 SPRINGER........................ 91 51 81 46 / 0 5 10 10 LAS VEGAS....................... 87 52 78 43 / 0 0 5 0 CLAYTON......................... 97 57 84 51 / 0 5 10 5 ROY............................. 93 56 81 49 / 0 5 10 5 CONCHAS......................... 98 62 91 54 / 0 0 5 0 SANTA ROSA...................... 96 62 89 55 / 0 0 5 0 TUCUMCARI....................... 104 64 94 55 / 0 0 5 0 CLOVIS.......................... 100 62 92 56 / 0 0 5 0 PORTALES........................ 102 64 93 57 / 0 0 5 0 FORT SUMNER..................... 102 64 93 57 / 0 0 5 0 ROSWELL......................... 107 68 100 63 / 0 0 5 0 PICACHO......................... 96 65 91 59 / 0 0 5 0 ELK............................. 90 61 87 56 / 0 0 5 0 && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... RED FLAG WARNING FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...NMZ101>109. RED FLAG WARNING FROM 9 AM TO 9 PM MDT MONDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...NMZ103-104-107-108. WIND ADVISORY FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...NMZ501>540. && 52/43
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 NMZ501>540-201200- ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY- EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-ESTANCIA VALLEY-FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-GUADALUPE COUNTY-HARDING COUNTY- JEMEZ MOUNTAINS-LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER- NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-NORTHWEST PLATEAU-QUAY COUNTY- RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY- SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-SANTA FE METRO AREA- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS ABOVE 9500 FEET-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-UNION COUNTY-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY-WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- 600 AM MDT SUN JUN 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THROUGH 10 PM FOR ALL OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO WHERE LOW HUMIDITIES COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE CRITICAL TO EXTREME FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. LOCALLY CRITICAL CONDITIONS MAY CONTINUE THROUGH THE MIDNIGHT HOUR ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS. WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 OR 55 MPH WILL BE COMMON AREA WIDE. THESE STRONG WINDS MAY CREATE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST. SMOKE FROM THE WALLOW WILDFIRE IMPACT AIR QUALITY ACROSS CATRON COUNTY...ESPECIALLY AROUND RESERVE...LUNA...AND QUEMADO. THE SMOKE PLUME FROM THE PACHECO CANYON WILDFIRE WILL IMPACT AIR QUALITY FROM THE SANTA FE SKI AREA NORTHEASTWARD TOWARD MORA AND OJO FELIZ. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THROUGH 9 PM FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS WHERE LOW HUMIDITIES COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AT 911 AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 1.888.386.7637 TO REPORT WILDFIRE OUTBREAKS. 34
4 high wind, 1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
One business lost some shingles in Grants, while several homes had minor roof damage from the strong wind gusts. A tent filled with fireworks was blown over as well.
Wind gusts were measured between 60 and 63 mph for 15 minutes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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