A deep pool of arctic air combined with a weak upper level low pressure system allowed widespread light to moderate snowfall to develop over northern and eastern New Mexico. Persistent snowfall enhanced by upslope or low level east to west flow along the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains produced significant snowfall and treacherous travel conditions along the Interstate 25 corridor…
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.
A deep pool of arctic air combined with a weak upper level low pressure system allowed widespread light to moderate snowfall to develop over northern and eastern New Mexico. Persistent snowfall enhanced by upslope or low level east to west flow along the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains produced significant snowfall and treacherous travel conditions along the Interstate 25 corridor between Raton Pass and Las Vegas.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Widespread 2 inch snowfall amounts with upward of 7 inches within the city of Raton. Significant impacts to travel were noted along Interstate 25 around Raton with extreme caution advised by NMDOT.
Widespread 3 to 4 inch snowfall amounts around Las Vegas. Significant impacts to travel were noted along Interstate 25 extreme caution advised by NMDOT.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, January 2013
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: 420031, 420032.