"Soft hail" or also known as graupel briefly hit West El Paso and Sunland Park Saturday afternoon, March 15.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storm Laboratory, graupel are soft, small pellets formed when supercooled water droplets freeze onto a snow crystal.
Graupel is also called soft hail as the particles are particularly fragile and generally disintegrate when handled.
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