Roswell, NM Hail Storm – June 2025

What Happened

A severe hail storm crossed the Roswell, NM metro on June 15, 2025, with peak hail measured at 2.5 inches and a long run of warning and radar-confirmed alerts through the afternoon and evening.

The first NWS warning for the storm came at 1:43 PM MDT with 1.5-inch hail in the warning area. Additional alerts followed at 3:17 PM MDT for 1.75-inch hail, then repeated hail detections through late afternoon as the storm organized and cycled. By 5:26 PM MDT, dual-polarization radar showed a 2.5-inch hail signature. Later alerts kept the storm active into the evening, with radar-derived hail continuing to show 1-inch to 1.25-inch stones as the cell moved on.

Field reports lined up with that evolution. At 5:35 PM MDT, a trained spotter south of Taiban on NM 294 reported a few golf ball sized hailstones mixed with mostly pea size hail. Another spotter report at 6:00 PM MDT along U.S. 60 and 84 east of Taiban described nickel to quarter size hail from the severe thunderstorm. The reports showed a storm with larger cores embedded in broader zones of smaller hail.

The warning sequence ran from early afternoon into the night. The most intense radar signals arrived in the late afternoon, while verified ground reports stayed clustered in east-central New Mexico, near Taiban and the nearby highway corridor.

Damage Assessment

The field reports point to localized impact along the storm path rather than a uniform swath of large hail. A few golf ball sized stones were mixed into a much larger volume of pea size hail south of Taiban, which suggests isolated harder hits within a broader area of lighter accumulation. The second verified report near U.S. 60 and 84 found nickel to quarter size hail a little farther east, consistent with a storm that kept producing damaging hail as it moved.

The radar and spotter information do not indicate a single, continuous corridor of peak hail across the whole event. Instead, the event produced pockets of larger stones at specific times, with smaller hail falling around them. That pattern often shows up in roof, window, and vehicle claims as scattered losses rather than one broad uniform damage field.

For Roswell-area property owners, the key observations are the timing and the spread of reports. The strongest radar signal came late in the event, but the verified field reports were east of Roswell near Taiban. Roof edges, vents, soft metals, and exposed vehicle surfaces in the storm path should be checked for impact marks, dents, and shingle granule loss.

What Contractors Should Know

Focus first on the late-afternoon corridor east of Roswell and along the Taiban highway area. The verified reports place larger stones near NM 294 south of Taiban and smaller but still damaging hail near U.S. 60 and 84. That gives you two field clusters to work from when assigning canvass routes and reviewing claim density.