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Southern High Plains severe storms

Southern High Plains Severe Storms Damage Map, Oct 24-25, 2026

Southern High Plains severe storms has 30 local storm reports in the storm area. Tornado, hail, wind gust, and damage are shown. Social posts are hand-picked.

2026 · Oct 24, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026. Local storm reports in the storm area.

How to read this. Each dot is a local storm report: a tornado, hail, a wind gust, or wind damage. Open a dot for the place, the time in Eastern Time, and what was reported. The map opens on the reports. The boxes show or hide each kind on the map and in the list. A hollow pin is a hand-picked post from that town. When several posts are from the same town, the pin lists every one of them. It is not a full list of social media.

The technical details

Local storm reports come from the National Weather Service LSR feed as republished by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, at mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/geojson/lsr.geojson. The request uses the event dates, from 6 hours before the start through 36 hours after the end, and the states that meet the event area. A report is kept when it is a tornado, hail, a wind gust, or wind damage, and it falls inside that area. Rain reports stay out. Times are Eastern Time (ET). The file is cached with the other collected feeds. If the feed is down, the previous file stays. An empty cache shows no dots. A curated post list is optional. A missing file shows no pins.

Social pins are an approved list stored with the site. The coordinates are the town, not a person. The site stores the post address and id, and does not download the photo or video. X uses the official embed from platform.twitter.com, and that script loads only on this page when an X post is approved. Instagram and Facebook are a link card until META_OEMBED_TOKEN is set, which asks Meta for the official embed. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The methodology page is the full reference for the forecast scores. How we grade says the same rules in plain English. This map is not a score.

Damage map

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  • Tornado · 4
  • Hail · 16
  • Wind gust · 9
  • Damage · 1
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Local storm reports

30 reports from when the storm was nearby.

The kind of local storm report: wind gust, damage, flood, surge, or tornado. How strong the report was, in the units the National Weather Service used. Blank when the report did not include a number. Eastern TimeWhen the report was valid, shown in Eastern Time. The town, or the distance from a town, in the local storm report. RemarksThe note that came with the local storm report.
Hail 0.75 Inch 11:49 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 10 NW Bitter Lake Wildl, NM Penny hail along U.S. 285 at MM121.
Hail 1.25 Inch 9:20 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 6 SW Ancho, NM Quarter to half dollar size hail.
Tornado — 5:28 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 3 NE McAlister, NM Emergency manager confirmed brief tornado but remained in open fields with no damage reported.
Tornado — 4:24 PM ET Sun, Oct 25 12 S Rattlesnake, NM Several pics and video of a tornado near Table Mesa in open land on social media. No damage reported. The period of the Tornado report was 8 minutes.
Damage — 9:10 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 3 SW Santa Fe, NM A large mature tree, with a 1-2' trunk, was uprooted. A branch burst through a window of a residence.
Hail 1 Inch 9:05 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 SW Santa Fe, NM Dime to quarter size hail.
Tornado — 9:00 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 3 E Agua Fria, NM A tornado developed in the Via Caballero neighborhood in the south central portion of Santa Fe just north of I-25. The tornado traveled northward for approximately 1.4 miles, terminating near the College of Santa Fe. Much of the damage was along Rancho Siringo and Camino Chueco Roads. Damage included broken power poles, uprooted or damaged trees, damage to roofs. Ten homes sustained damaged. This tornado has been given a preliminary rating of EF-1, pending additional information.
Hail 0.88 Inch 8:57 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 SW Agua Fria, NM —
Wind gust 58 MPH 8:45 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 26 SW Three Rivers, NM —
Wind gust 62 MPH 8:30 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 9 W Tularosa, NM —
Wind gust 61 MPH 8:15 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 2 N Boles Acres, NM KALM AWOS.
Wind gust 68 MPH 8:05 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 22 W Holloman Afb, NM —
Hail 1 Inch 7:57 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 5 NE Smokey Bear Histor, NM —
Wind gust 75 MPH 7:50 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 25 N Organ, NM —
Wind gust 66 MPH 7:44 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 18 N White Sands, NM —
Tornado — 7:15 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 3 NE Alto, NM Minor damage to a house, trees down, garage door blown in, and shed damaged.
Hail 1 Inch 7:10 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 E White Sands, NM One inch hail at WSMR Headquarters.
Hail 0.88 Inch 7:02 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 E Sedillo, NM —
Hail 0.88 Inch 7:01 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 1 S Sedillo, NM —
Hail 1 Inch 6:38 PM ET Sat, Oct 24 3 S Canutillo, TX Public reported quarter size hail in the neighborhood near Rudy's.
Wind gust 62 MPH 8:14 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 2 NE El Paso, TX Mesonet station UP391.
Hail 0.75 Inch 8:01 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 2 S Fort Bliss near Cie, TX —
Hail 1 Inch 8:00 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 2 S Fort Bliss near a C, TX Hail covering the ground at a Costco parking lot at Interstate 10 and Towbridge Dr.
Hail 1 Inch 8:00 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 3 S Fort Bliss in South, TX Spotter also reported 1.5 inches of rain and wind gusts of 45 to 50 mph.
Hail 1.75 Inch 8:00 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 4 S Fort Bliss, TX Golf Ball sized hail damaged the greens on a golf course beyond repair with thousands of large divots in the turf.
Hail 1 Inch 7:55 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 Near University of Texa, TX —
Wind gust 68 MPH 7:45 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 19 SE Truth Or Conseque, NM AWOS Spaceport America K0A0.
Wind gust 71 MPH 7:20 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 2 E Organ, NM WSMR site San Augustin Pass WSM05.
Hail 1 Inch 6:45 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 6 N Jemez Pueblo, NM —
Hail 0.88 Inch 5:40 PM ET Fri, Oct 23 5 N Fenton Lake State P, NM —

Source: National Weather Service local storm reports, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. These reports are preliminary. Forecast Scoreboard is not affiliated with NWS, NOAA, or Iowa State University.

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