Hail, Lea
- When
- September 21, 9:06 PM MST
- Where
- Lea County, Lovington
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 32.933, -103.350
Hail in New Mexico, September 21, 2001
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
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 21, 7:35 PM MST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 7:35 PM MST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 935 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 2001 LINEAR MCS STARTING TO GET ITS ACT TOGETHER OVER NORTHWESTERN ZONES. LATEST ETA PROGS AND LOCAL VAD WIND PROFILE TRENDS SUGGEST GOOD LOW LEVEL SR INFLOW...WITH UPPER DYNAMICS PROVIDED BY A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH OVER CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. GIVEN THIS ALONG WITH SURFACE-BASED CAPES AOA 1200 J/KG FORECAST TO PERSIST FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS... EXPECT MCS TO CONTINUE TO PROPAGATE SOUTHEAST. WILL THEREFORE UPDATE THE ZONES SHORTLY TO RAISE POPS TO LOW CATEGORICAL NEAREST THE MCS... RAMPING DOWN THROUGH LIKELY TO CHANCE CATEGORY FROM WEST TO EAST. WILL ALSO MENTION LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AS RADAR ESTIMATES SUGGEST RAINFALL RATES NEAR ONE INCH PER HOUR. WILL HOLD ONTO SOME LOW ORDER POPS OVER THE BIG BEND AND LOWER TRANS PECOS...BUT BELIEVE THAT CONVECTION THERE IS JUST ABOUT DONE FOR THE DAY. WE PLAN NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE AFTERNOON ZONE FORECAST PACKAGE. ZONES WIBIS ASAP. .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE.
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 155 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:07 UTC.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, September 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Michigan, September 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, September 21, 2001
- Hail in Texas, September 21, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, September 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Texas, September 21, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, September 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Connecticut, September 21, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, September 21, 2001
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, September 21, 2001
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, September 2001
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: 5269697.