Hail, Roosevelt
- When
- August 2, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Roosevelt County
- Coordinates
- 34.180, -103.330
Tornadoes and Hail in New Mexico, August 2, 1979
2 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Otero
- When
- August 2, 4:04 PM CST
- Where
- Otero County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.850, -106.100
Tornado, Lea
- When
- August 2, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lea County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.250, -103.320
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, August 2, 1979
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 2, 1979
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 2, 1979
- Tornado in Texas, August 2, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, August 2, 1979
- Hail in South Dakota, August 2, 1979
- Tornado in Kansas, August 2, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, August 2, 1979
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 1979Every state in 1979This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Mexico, 1979
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10078443, 10078444, 10078445.