High Wind in Curry, New Mexico

High Wind April 4, 2009 · Curry, New Mexico

60 mph

Measured gust (52 kt)

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A wind gust to 58 mph was reported three miles northwest of Texico. A 35 year old man was killed in Clovis when a gust of wind caught a door on a semitrailer and slammed the man into the loading dock wall. He suffered head injuries.

The wider storm

A storm slowly crossed Northern New Mexico on the 3rd and moved into western Kansas on the 4th. Meanwhile, a surface low deepened rapidly over northeast New Mexico and then lifted into western Kansas. A very tight surface pressure gradient led to widespread reports of high winds and locally damaging winds.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 153432. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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