Hail, Torrance
- When
- June 20, 11:17 AM MST
- Where
- Torrance County, 7 mi SW of Encino
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.583, -105.533
Hail in New Mexico, June 20, 2003
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 Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 20, 10:06 AM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 10:06 AM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1106 AM MDT FRI JUN 20 2003 ISSUED ANOTHER FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EAST AND SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO HEAD EAST. EXPECT A FRESH BATCH OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO AHEAD OF A DEEP THERMAL TROF EVIDENT ON 12Z UPPER AIR CHARTS. PRECIPITABLE WATER OVER THE EAST WILL ALSO REMAIN ABOVE .75 INCH UNTIL AROUND MIDNIGHT...WHEN PERSISTENT SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS ALOFT WILL FINALLY DRY OUT THE COLUMN. SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO...WHICH ALREADY RECEIVED MORE THAN AN INCH OF RAIN DURING THE PAST TWO DAYS...COULD RECEIVE ANOTHER INCH OR TWO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION AN UPR LVL S/WV MVG ACROSS ARIZONA WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY. NOT MANY CHANGES TO THE PREVIOUS FORECAST...DID RAISE THE POPS TODAY ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS. AFTER THIS S/WV CLEARS THE AREA...AREA WILL COME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ZONAL FLOW WHICH MEANS WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS. NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED FOREACST. .ABQ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NMZ005-006-011>013-016>021-026 RED FLAG WARNING THIS AFTN TO EARLY EVE NMZ105 WEST OF CONT DIVIDE. MARTIN/DLC
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 5:00 AM MST, 6 hours 17 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-211200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT FRI JUN 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PLAINS. AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA COMBINED WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING BY NOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:19 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 20, 2003
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 20 to 21, 2003
- Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 20, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 20, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 20, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 20, 2003
- Flash Flood in Florida, June 20, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Montana, June 20, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, June 20, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 20, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, June 20, 2003
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, June 2003
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: 5365448.