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High Wind in Far Northeast Plains, New Mexico

High Wind June 6, 2009 · Far Northeast Plains, New Mexico

71 mph

Measured gust (62 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Showers produced a high wind gust from a dry microburst 2 miles east northeast of Clayton.

The wider storm

Showers developed during the late afternoon of the 6th along the east slopes of the Sangre de Cristo and Sandia Mountains and drifted east during the evening. While producing little or no rain due to the dry low levels of the atmosphere, the showers did create brief high wind gusts in the form of dry microbursts.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 163257. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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