New Mexico, 2025

High Wind in New Mexico, January 17, 2025

January 17, 2025 · NWS MAF · 2 events in 1 county or zone

A broad long-wave trough with progressive jet stream resulted in high winds across the Guadalupe, Delaware, and Davis Mountains and immediately adjacent plains.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

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 MAF wrote it up.

A broad long-wave trough with progressive jet stream resulted in high winds across the Guadalupe, Delaware, and Davis Mountains and immediately adjacent plains.

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 Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 17, 4:53 AM MST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 4:53 AM MST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
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The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Eddy County Plains

When
January 17, 9:30 AM MST to 1:37 PM MST
Where
Eddy County Plains forecast zone
Measured
64 kt (74 mph) measured gust
Reported by
Mesonet
Coordinates
32.472, -104.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A 74 MPH wind gust was measured at the Carlsbad Caverns West Texas Mesonet site in New Mexico.

High Wind, Eddy County Plains

When
January 17, 3:00 PM MST to 3:04 PM MST
Where
Eddy County Plains forecast zone
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
Reported by
ASOS
Coordinates
32.472, -104.304 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Carlsbad Caverns Airport ASOS reported a maximum wind gust of 60 mph.

What these are

High Wind
Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1229251, 1234122.