A relatively warm winter storm system moved across New Mexico December 22nd through the 24th. The system provided widespread valley rain and mountain snow with only the high mountain peaks seeing high snow accumulations.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 relatively warm winter storm system moved across New Mexico December 22nd through the 24th. The system provided widespread valley rain and mountain snow with only the high mountain peaks seeing high snow accumulations. Ski Santa Fe reported 13 inches of snow. Meanwhile, a line of storms developed across south-central New Mexico with strong winds causing a tree branch to fall on a house in Ruidoso. This line of storms continued eastward and produced a severe wind gust in Clovis.
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 22, 10:53 PM MST, 7 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 164 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:27 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy snow, 1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An estimated thirteen 13 inches of snow at Ski Santa Fe SNOTEL site on December 23rd.
Winds blew down large tree branches onto a house. Wind speed is an estimate based on the large tree branch broken causing damage.
Winds blew down a tree branch onto a home causing damage to the metal and wood framed roof and cosmetic damage to the side of the house.
Report was retrieved from a weather underground station.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, December 2023
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: 1145612, 1145548, 1145996, 1145549.