High Wind — Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
1996-03-23 · Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
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Wider weather episode
Winds gusting 60 to 70 mph damaged signs and trees and ripped away sections of a restaurant roof causing additional damage to nearby cars and buildings in Gallup. Winds gusting 45 to 55 mph fanned an 8000 acre grassfire northeast of Clayton in Union county. A brush burn on the Isleta Reservation just south of Albuquerque was whipped into a wildfire that consumed 100 acres of the Rio Grande Bosque and closed nearby Interstate 25 for 4 hours because of the smoke.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5547069. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.