Hail, Lea
- When
- May 24, 8:30 PM MST
- Where
- Lea County, Hobbs
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.792, -103.412 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail in New Mexico, May 24, 1994
1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 24, 1994
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 24, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 24, 1994
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, May 24, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, May 24, 1994
- Hail in South Dakota, May 24, 1994
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, May 24, 1994
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1994Every state in 1994This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 1994
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: 10335356.