Tornado, Quay
- When
- June 11, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Quay County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 34.350, -103.200
Tornadoes and Hail in New Mexico, June 11, 1971
2 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Quay
- When
- June 11, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Quay County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -103.300
Tornado, Curry
- When
- June 11, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Curry County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 34.800, -103.300
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 11, 1971
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 11, 1971
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 11, 1971
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 11, 1971
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, June 11, 1971
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 11, 1971
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 11, 1971
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 11, 1971
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1971Every state in 1971This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Mexico, 1971
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10081756, 10081757, 10081758.