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Southern High Plains Severe Storms Final Scorecard, Oct 24-25, 2026

Southern High Plains severe storms (Oct 24-25, 2026) maps National Weather Service tornado, hail, and wind reports inside the stored search area. 30 National Weather Service local storm reports are on file for tornado, hail, and wind. Stored counts: 4 tornado, 16 hail, 9 wind, 1 wind damage. Reports were filed at these places: 10 NW Bitter Lake Wildl, NM; 6 SW Ancho, NM; 3 NE McAlister, NM; 12 S Rattlesnake, NM; 3 SW Santa Fe, NM; 1 SW Santa Fe, NM; 3 E Agua Fria, NM; 2 SW Agua Fria, NM; 26 SW Three Rivers, NM; 9 W Tularosa, NM; 2 N Boles Acres, NM; 22 W Holloman Afb, NM, and 18 more. The final scorecard grades the archived Day 1 severe outlook for each date against the stored local storm reports. That score stays as it was written. The damage map keeps National Weather Service tornado, hail, and wind reports for New Mexico, far west Texas, and southeast Colorado, inside the stored search area. The dates run through Sunday, October 25, so Saturday's Slight Risk in New Mexico and far west Texas and Sunday's hail risk in southern and eastern New Mexico and far west Texas stay on this page. Flood and heavy-rain reports for this region stay on the High Plains flash flood page.

Wrap-up

Finished span: Oct 24-25, 2026. 30 tornado, hail, and wind reports are on file. No warning is on file. 18 of 18 stored reports fell inside the severe-outlook risk area, and none fell outside. Inside: 12 in a Slight Risk and 6 in a Marginal Risk. 10 other stored reports were not inside a graded valid time, so they are not in those counts. No forecast is stored next to an observation, so this page does not rank a source.

This event is over.

Final scorecard

18 of 18 stored reports fell inside the severe-outlook risk area, and none fell outside. Inside: 12 in a Slight Risk and 6 in a Marginal Risk. 10 other stored reports were not inside a graded valid time, so they are not in those counts.

October 24, 2026: 16 of 16 reports were inside a risk area and none were outside (12 in a Slight Risk and 4 in a Marginal Risk).

October 25, 2026: 2 of 2 reports were inside a risk area and none were outside (2 in a Marginal Risk).

The technical details

The grade uses the Storm Prediction Center Day 1 categorical outlook issued at 1630 UTC for each event date, from the public archive GeoJSON named day1otlk_YYYYMMDD_1630_cat.lyr.geojson. Later updates at 2000 UTC and 0100 UTC are not used, and neither are the 0600 UTC or 1300 UTC issuances. One issuance keeps every date on the same product. A report counts when its time is at or after that issuance and before 12 UTC the next day, which is the valid window written on the product. A report exactly at 12 UTC is not in the window. Reports between 12 UTC and 1630 UTC are not graded, because this outlook was not valid yet. A report on the outline counts as inside. A point in more than one outline is counted once, in the higher risk: High, then Moderate, Enhanced, Slight, and Marginal. General thunder is the categorical thunder outline. It is not a Marginal, Slight, Enhanced, Moderate, or High risk, so it is not part of the inside count. The check is the outline itself. A report just outside the line counts as outside. This is not the Storm Prediction Center neighborhood that treats a nearby report as inside. The stored local storm reports are the ones already kept for this event. A day whose archive file could not be fetched has no score. A day that has been graded is not replaced on a later collect.

The methodology page is the full reference. How we grade says the same rule in plain English.

Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026. The damage map keeps the local storm reports for this storm.

Damage reports · Southern High Plains recap

Outlook

The damage map keeps National Weather Service tornado, hail, and wind reports for New Mexico, far west Texas, and southeast Colorado, inside the stored search area. The dates run through Sunday, October 25, so Saturday's Slight Risk in New Mexico and far west Texas and Sunday's hail risk in southern and eastern New Mexico and far west Texas stay on this page. Flood and heavy-rain reports for this region stay on the High Plains flash flood page.

High Plains flash flood. Flood and heavy-rain reports for this same region are on that page.

Damage map