1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 El Paso, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 1:30 PM MST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO-SANTA TERESA NM 230 PM MDT WED JUL 9 2003 SYNOPSIS... STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT CONTINUES TO HANG OVER SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO...KEEPING THE AREA HOT AND DRY. CONSEQUENTLY THUNDERSTORMS ARE QUITE UNLIKELY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE REGION. TOMORROW THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH SHIFTS WEST INTO ARIZONA. THIS WILL ALLOW MOISTURE TO CREEP BACK INTO THE AREA AND THUS A RETURN OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN WARM. THE MOISTURE BEGINS TO SHIFT BACK EAST AGAIN LATE IN THE WEEKEND TO ONCE AGAIN REDUCE RAIN CHANCES. DISCUSSION... VERY WARM ALOFT TODAY...SHOULD KEEP MOST ACTIVITY FROM INITIATING TONIGHT. MODELS PLAYING THE BAIT AND SWITCH. LAST WEEK SHOWING MOISTURE WORKING IN FROM THE SOUTH AS THE UPPER HIGH SHIFTED EAST...NOW MORPHING BACK TO THE PATTERN SEEN LAST WEEK. THUS NOW EXPECTING THE UPPER HIGH TO SHIFT BACK WEST INTO ARIZONA (IT NEVER DID CENTER OVER THE HEART OF THE REGION OR BECOME AS STRONG AS WAS EARLIER SUGGESTED). AS THE UPPER HIGH MOVES BACK INTO AZ...A NUMBER OF THINGS WILL COME INTO PLAY WHICH WILL PUT US BACK IN THE DAILY AFT/EVE TSTM PATTERN OF LAST WEEK ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. ARE WILL BE BACK ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE HIGHS FRONT SIDE...THUS WELL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO WEAK RIPPLES IN THE N-TO-S FLOW ALOFT. EASTERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL IMPORT A BIT MORE MOISTURE INTO THE AREA FROM THE EAST. TEMPS ALOFT WILL COOL ENOUGH TO PROVIDE MORE UNSTABLE LAPSE RATES. WILL HAVE TO BEGINNING SMEARING THE ZONES WITH MINIMAL POPS AS EARLY AS TOMORROW FOR AREA MTNS...AND THU EVE FOR ALL THE LOWLANDS. LIKE LAST WEEK IT LOOKS LIKE THE LOWLANDS WILL REQUIRE THE AID OF OUTFLOWS AND MOUNTAIN CONVECTION TO BUST THROUGH A WEAK CAP. MODELS SHOW THE UPPER HIGH SHIFTING BACK EAST OVER THE REGION LATE SAT AND SUN. THIS SHOULD END PCPN THREAT FOR GILA AND BOOTHEEL... WITH THE LOWLANDS WEST OF THE RIO GRANDE HAVING A MUCH REDUCED TSTM CHANCE. WILL KEEP POPS FOR ZONES EAST OF RIVER SATURDAY AND SLOWLY WEAN THEM OUT SUN AND MONDAY. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... EL PASO UU 073/098 072/097 072 00101 ALAMOGORDO UU 070/099 069/096 069 00101 LAS CRUCES UU 069/099 068/097 068 00101 CLOUDCROFT UU 048/074 048/073 048 02121 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES UU 069/099 068/096 068 00102 SILVER CITY UU 059/094 058/092 057 00102 DEMING UU 068/099 067/094 067 00101 LORDSBURG UU 068/098 067/093 067 00101 SIERRA BLANCA UU 068/097 067/091 067 00101 .ELP...NONE 14 / BIRD
NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-072030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1230 PM MDT WED JUL 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY NOT EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TODAY ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA AS STRONG HIGH PRESSURE HAS CREATED WARM TEMPERATURES ALOFT AND DRIED THE ATMOSPHERE. THE SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS DO HAVE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM TODAY. WITH MEAGER MOISTURE...DO NOT EXPECT FLOODING. ALSO DO NOT EXPECT LARGE HAIL...EVEN IN HIGHER TERRAIN...WITH A VERY WARM ATMOSPHERE. THE BIGGEST ISSUE WITH STORMS WILL BE OUTFLOW GUST POTENTIAL. ISOLATED GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO RETURN TO THE AREA THURSDAY AS THE UPPER HIGH SHIFTS BACK WEST AND ALLOWS MOISTURE TO MOVE BACK INTO THE AREA. PLEASE REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. BIRD
NMZ024-025-092345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 445 PM MDT WED JUL 9 2003 AT 445 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS BETWEEN HIGH ROLLS AND LA LUZ. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. HAIL TO ONE-HALF INCH...WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT AFFECTS EASTERN ALAMOGORDO DURING THE NEXT 30 TO 60 MINUTES. THIS STORM WILL MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE WARNING. WHEN HAZARDOUS WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. MACBLAIN
NMZ024-025-100045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 545 PM MDT WED JUL 9 2003 AT 545 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM FORMING NEAR LA LUZ OVER THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS. THIS STORM IS BUILDING ON THE BACK EDGE OF AN EARLIER STORM WHICH MOVED SOUTHWEST OVER ALAMOGORDO AND WEAKENED. THE STORM NEAR LA LUZ IS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. HAIL TO ONE-HALF INCH...WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOTORISTS TRAVELING EAST AND NORTHEAST FROM ALAMOGORDO IN THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED AREAS WATER OR HAIL ON ROADWAYS. PERSONS TRAVELING ON U.S. 70 BETWEEN ALAMOGORDO AND WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE POST AREA MAY ENCOUNTER LOCALLY RESTRICTED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING DUST. THIS STORM WILL MONITORED FOR A POSSIBLE WARNING. WHEN HAZARDOUS WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. NEVER DRIVE INTO WATER ON ROADWAYS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. MACBLAIN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX
614 PM MDT WED JUL 09 2003
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0614 PM ALAMOGORDO NM 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/09/03 OTEROThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Nickel size hail covered the ground at a fire station in north Alamogordo.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New Mexico in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 2003
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: 5334196.