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Dust Storm in Southwest Desert Mimbres Basin, New Mexico

Dust Storm April 1, 2011 – April 9, 2011 · Southwest Desert Mimbres Basin, New Mexico

What the National Weather Service wrote

Visibilities of a quarter mile were reported intermittently at the Deming ASOS. US Highway 180 north of Deming, Highway 11 between Deming and Columbus, and Highway 26 between Deming and Hatch were closed for parts of the day due to significant blowing dust.

The wider storm

A strong cutoff low was located over the Great Basin with a 125 knot jet stream rounding the base of this system and moving into Western New Mexico. Some of these strong winds were able to mix down to the surface and produce wind gusts over 60 mph with visibilities under a quarter mile at times.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 299447. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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