RECAP

Wild Supercell in Central New Mexico

by Tornado Titans

Published 09/20/26 · 1 min read

YESTERDAY: What a wild non-severe risk chase. Models were painting a concentrated area of hail/wind potential with supercells and I even thought a non-zero tornado chance too. All of it verified, and then some, just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, yesterday. Almost had a tornado as the storm moved into terrain, and if you count a rapidly rotating wall cloud sitting on a mountain as a tornado it was definitely one!

At one point the storm was warned for over baseball size hail!

At this moment the storm featured an organized lowering with strong inflow into it. This was the moment the storm was ramping up and trying to produce a tornado south and east of Belen, NM.

This was the moment I became convinced this supercell south of Belen, NM, might produce a tornado. This wall cloud had been cranking for over 10 minutes and looked the part in almost every way. This storm produced 2-3″ hail south of town with some compelling structure at times. A wild “no severe risk” chase in Central New Mexico a few hours ago!