Hail in El Paso County, Texas

Hail November 4, 2016 · El Paso County, Texas

1.75 in

Hail diameter

$300.0M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Supercell thunderstorms (very rare for November in this area) affected much of El Paso. The strongest, which actually weakened before moving into the United States, produced golf ball hail over far east El Paso into Horizon City. This caused record breaking insurance claims for a single hail event with a total of $200 million damage to vehicles and $100 million to homes. This doubled the previous record from 9-16-09. Flooding also occurred due to excessive hail amounts plugging up drains.

The wider storm

A broad area of high pressure was located through the central part of the country with easterly winds tapping low level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. Upper level moisture was tapped from an upper low moving out of the Baja region. These two features combined to create sufficient shear for severe thunderstorms over El Paso county with up to golf ball sized hail and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage across eastern El Paso County. Severe hail was also reported in Hudspeth County.

Began near Socorro (31.6851, -106.2103).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 666452. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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