Heavy Snow, West Central Plateau
- When
- January 1, 12:00 AM MST to 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- West Central Plateau forecast zone
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
Trained spotters indicated between 2 to 5 inches of snow fell.
Heavy Snow in New Mexico, January 1, 2015
A closed upper level low located along the Arizona New Mexico border produced snow showers across much of western and central New Mexico late on the 31st through the day on the 1st. Snow showers were mainly focused along a weak Pacific cold front that quickly moved northeast.
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.
A closed upper level low located along the Arizona New Mexico border produced snow showers across much of western and central New Mexico late on the 31st through the day on the 1st. Snow showers were mainly focused along a weak Pacific cold front that quickly moved northeast. Snowfall amounts were generally light, ranging from 1 to 3 inches, but up to 5 inches was reported west of Gallup.
What forecasters said that day
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 Dec 31, 11:08 PM MST, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 11:08 PM MST, 52 minutes before
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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
- High Surf in Florida, January 1 to 4, 2015
- Cold in Wisconsin, January 1, 2015
- Frost and Freeze in Arizona, January 1 to 3, 2015
- Frost and Freeze in California, January 1 to 3, 2015
- Winter Weather in Texas, January 1 to 2, 2015
- Drought in Texas, January 1 to 31, 2015
- Lake-Effect Snow in New York, January 1 to 2, 2015
- Heavy Snow and Frost and Freeze in Arizona, January 1, 2015
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Georgia, January 1 to 4, 2015
- Drought in Oklahoma, January 1 to 31, 2015
- Lake-Effect Snow in New York, January 1, 2015
- Ice Storm in Texas, January 1 to 2, 2015
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, January 2015
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: 546868.