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High Wind in Southern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico

High Wind April 22, 2022 · Southern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico

70 mph
Measured gust (61 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Mesonet site at San Augustin Pass recorded a peak gust of 70 mph.

The wider storm

An upper low was moving out of the Great Basin and into western Wyoming. A strong surface low was over eastern Colorado with a lee trough extending down to Mexico east of the Rio Grande. Southwest winds across southwestern New Mexico gusted up to 70 mph as this system moved through.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1019648. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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