Heavy Snow in Northern Lea County, New Mexico

Heavy Snow December 29, 2009 · Northern Lea County, New Mexico

What the National Weather Service wrote

Four inches of snow accumulated in Tatum. Roads were snow packed and icy.

The wider storm

A strong upper level storm system moved over southeast New Mexico and west Texas late on 12/28/09 and early on 12/29/09. Cold air over the region combined with this upper storm system to produce a variety of winter weather across southeast New Mexico and west Texas, in addition to snow over the Guadalupe Mountains and southeast New Mexico plains.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 208838. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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