Severe-Warned Storm over Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Dusk and Early Evening, May 26, 2010

by John Farley

On the evening of May 26, a nice storm went up over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains between Santa Fe and Las Vegas. I managed to get some pictures at dusk and in the early evening:


This storm was SVR-warned for hail, but due to its location in rugged, mountainous, thinly-populated terrain, I saw no reports of severe weather - probably very few if any people live where the hail fell. Earlier another storm 25 miles or so SE of this one produced copious amounts of quarter to golfball hail in an area from near Las Vegas down to Villanueva. Several cars reported off I-25 due to 2-3 inch hail accumulations.


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