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High Wind in Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
High Wind March 23, 1996 · Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
The wider storm
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 5547069. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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