An upper level disturbance moved across the central Rocky Mountains during the day on November 24th. Strong mid and upper level winds south of the base of this disturbance moved across the northern mountains and adjacent highlands of New Mexico.
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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 upper level disturbance moved across the central Rocky Mountains during the day on November 24th. Strong mid and upper level winds south of the base of this disturbance moved across the northern mountains and adjacent highlands of New Mexico. Mountain wave activity helped bring these stronger winds down the surface across the northeast and east central highlands resulting in brief high wind gusts at Raton Crews Airport, a mesonet station between Mora and Rociada, and Clines Corners. Las Vegas Municipal Airport observed an approximately 3 hour period of high wind gusts during the late morning and early afternoon. Winds quickly died down during the evening hours around sunset as the disturbance exited east into the Great Plains.
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 Nov 24, 10:42 AM MST, 8 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Las Vegas Municipal Airport observed several high wind gusts during the late morning and early afternoon hours peaking at 68 mph.
Raton Crews Municipal Airport observed a brief high wind gust of 59 mph.
Clines Corners observed a brief high wind gust of 58 mph.
The Bartley RAWS between Mora and Rociada observed a brief high wind gust of 59 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, November 2024
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1218027, 1218026, 1218025, 1218024.