A slow-moving upper-level low pressure system with abundant moisture interacted with a backdoor cold front sliding southwest through eastern NM to produce widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms over NM during early October. Just enough instability and shear below the larger scale rotation aloft allowed a couple storms to produce brief funnel clouds over the region.
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The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
A slow-moving upper-level low pressure system with abundant moisture interacted with a backdoor cold front sliding southwest through eastern NM to produce widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms over NM during early October. Just enough instability and shear below the larger scale rotation aloft allowed a couple storms to produce brief funnel clouds over the region. A funnel cloud was observed near Edgewood.
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 210 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:07 UTC.
2 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A post on social media indicated a large funnel cloud hovering over Twin Buttes Mesa near Navajo, NM.
A Forest Service employee spotted a funnel cloud near Edgewood around 445pm MDT on October 4, 2022.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1053281, 1051457.