1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jun 30, 1:05 PM MST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO-SANTA TERESA NM 205 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2003 SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL PERSIST OVER ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO INTO THE WEEKEND. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL ALSO CONTINUE...ALLOWING ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS FOR THE REST OF THIS WEEK. DISCUSSION... RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT CENTERED OVER ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO WILL PERSIST INTO THE WEEKEND...WITH RIDGE SLOWLY TIPPING EASTWARD TO EXTEND WEST TO EAST BY SATURDAY. WV IMAGERY SHOWING POSSIBLE WEAK VORT CENTER NEAR THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS HELPING WITH EARLY CONVECTION. OTHERWISE ETA SHOWING MAIN SURFACE CONVERGENCE LINE EXTENDING FROM THE BOOTHEEL THROUGH SOCORRO. WILL MENTION THUNDERSTORMS ALL AREAS BUT BOOTHEEL. MAX CAPE AND TT VALUES RUNNING THROUGH CENTRAL CWA COULD ALSO HELP FOCUS THE BEST ACTIVITY IN THE BLACK RANGE AND SIERRA COUNTY TONIGHT. TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY WILL KEEP ISOLATED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON...AND THEN MOVE THEM TO LOWLANDS NIGHT TIME. THURSDAY/FRIDAY FINALLY SEE SOME LOWER LEVEL DRYING OVER THE WESTERN CWA...WITH JUST THE EASTERN CWA UNDER A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... EL PASO UU 069/096 070/099 071 20101 ALAMOGORDO UU 067/096 068/099 069 20101 LAS CRUCES UU 066/097 067/100 068 20202 CLOUDCROFT BB 049/074 051/076 052 22020 TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES UU 066/094 067/097 068 30000 SILVER CITY BU 059/089 060/092 061 22020 DEMING UU 065/096 066/099 067 10000 LORDSBURG UU 065/096 066/099 067 00000 SIERRA BLANCA UU 064/095 065/098 066 20202 .ELP...NONE 17 HEFNER
NMZ022>025-030>032-TXZ055-056-301930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EL PASO TX 1055 AM MDT MON JUN 30 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHCENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND FAR WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE EASTERN GILA MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE LOWLANDS THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY REACH MARGINAL SEVERE LEVELS WITH WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY EAST OF THE RIO GRANDE TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT. PLEASE REPORT ANY OBSERVED HAZARDOUS WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Holloman AFB personnel involved in training south of Cloudcroft experienced 40 minutes of half-inch hail with the largest hailstones slightly larger than 1 inch in diameter.
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, June 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: 5366449.