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High Wind in Sangre De Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

High Wind December 13, 2008 · Sangre De Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

49 mph
Measured sustained (43 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

A wind gust of 66 mph was also reported at 530 am.

The wider storm

A short wave trough ejected east from a storm off the California coast on the 12th and crossed New Mexico on the 13th. A tight mid level gradient pressed toward the surface and produced high winds over portions of the central mountain vhain and eastern high plains from the 13th through the 14th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 138110. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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