Hail, Bernalillo
- When
- July 28, 12:30 PM MST
- Where
- Bernalillo County, Albuquerque
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -106.570
Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, July 28, 1997
A thunderstorm moving north along the west slope of the Sandia mountains produced a brief funnel cloud over Kirkland Airforce Base. The storm intensified over eastern Albuquerque dropping dime size hail and 1 to 2 inches of rain.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
A thunderstorm moving north along the west slope of the Sandia mountains produced a brief funnel cloud over Kirkland Airforce Base. The storm intensified over eastern Albuquerque dropping dime size hail and 1 to 2 inches of rain. One city street intersection was closed for about 5 days after the pavement was undercut by flood waters which burst through the city drain.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Bernalillo
- When
- July 28, 12:30 PM MST to 1:15 PM MST
- Where
- Bernalillo County, Albuquerque
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 35.051, -106.670 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Heat in North Carolina, July 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 28, 1997
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 28, 1997
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in West Virginia, July 28, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 28 to 29, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 28, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 28, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in North Carolina, July 28, 1997
More
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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: 5611623, 5611624.