New Mexico, 2025High 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.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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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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</html>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.
- 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.
- Excessive Heat and Extreme Cold in Colorado, January 17 to 22, 2025127 events
- Extreme Cold and Winter Weather in Colorado, January 17 to 21, 202530 events
- Extreme Cold in Utah, January 17 to 22, 202520 events
- Blizzard and High Wind in North Dakota, January 17, 202558 kt wind · 8 events
- Dust Storm and High Wind in New Mexico, January 17, 202560 kt wind · 7 events
- High Wind in Texas, January 17, 202563 kt wind · 6 events
- Blizzard and High Wind in Minnesota, January 17, 202556 kt wind · 5 events
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 17 to 18, 20255 events
- Winter Weather in Colorado, January 17 to 18, 20254 events
- High Wind in Texas, January 17, 202553 kt wind · 4 events
- Extreme Cold and Winter Weather in Montana, January 17 to 20, 20254 events
- Winter Weather in Minnesota, January 17, 20253 events
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.