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Tornado in Curry County, New Mexico

Tornado May 29, 2024 · Curry County, New Mexico

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Not rated

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Trained spotter documented a brief tornado relayed by the Curry County Emergency Manager. No damage was reported as the tornado was brief and in rural land. Damage rating EF-Unknown.

The wider storm

A surface convergence boundary was draped across east central NM during the evening hours of May 29th. High moisture was in place east of the boundary. These two features resulted in the development and strengthening of a strong supercell that drifted south and southeast through Curry County. The supercell produced two brief tornadoes along with golf ball to baseball size hail in central and southeast Curry County near Cannon Air Force Base. Rotation weakened as the supercell moved south into Roosevelt County. However, it still dropped baseball to tea cup size hail in Portales. The supercell exited into the Texas South Plains shortly before midnight.

Key Words: Tornado, Hail, Flash Flood.

Began near Field (34.6200, -103.4700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EFU Curry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1170051. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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