New Mexico, 2001

Hail in New Mexico, August 17, 2001

August 17, 2001 · NWS ABQ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 17, 1:00 PM MST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:00 PM MST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
200 PM MDT FRI AUG 17 2001

UPPER HIGH TO SHIFT E OVER NM THIS WEEKEND...THEN CONTINUE TO MOVE
E NEXT WEEK.

SOME DRIER AIR HAS MOVED INTO NW NM TODAY AS SEEN ON MORNING
SOUNDINGS. SOME SUBSIDENCE/INVERSION AROUND 500 MB AS WELL. MOST
OF CONVECTION THIS EVE SHOULD BE CONFINED TO SW AND SC MOUNTAINS
WHERE BETTER MOISTURE REMAINS ALONG WITH SOME DIFFLUENCE ALOFT.
BUT A FEW OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE WRN AND CNTRL MOUNTAINS LATE
THIS PM AS WELL...AND ISOLATED STORMS THIS EVE OVER THE LOWLANDS.
WEAK SHORT WAVE TO BRUSH THE NE EARLY TONIGHT PERHAPS ENHANCING
ACTIVITY.

FEWER AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND TSTMS EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND
AREAWIDE AS HIGH OVERHEAD BRINGS WARMING/DRYING/SUBSIDENCE. ONLY
SLIGHT CHANCE POPS PM AND EVE MOUNTAINS AND 10 POPS LOWLANDS IN THE
EVE. NOTHING MORE THAN ISOLATED STORMS SUN PM/EVE. TEMPS A FEW
DEGREES WARMER ALL ZONES THIS WEEKEND.

TREND TOWARD MORE CONVECTION RETURNS MON N AND W AS HIGH SHIFTS E AND
SRLY FLOW BRINGS A RETURN OF SOME MONSOONAL MOISTURE. SOULD BE ACTIVE
TUE AND WED N AND W. THEN A MORE SWRLY FLOW FOR THE END OF THE WEEK
MAY BRING SOME DRYING TO THE W AND SHIFT THE ACTION TO THE E. WILL GO
WITH A CHANCE CNTRL MOUNTAINS MON THRU FRI...BEST CHANCES IN THE W
WILL BE MON THRU WED...WHILE BEST CHANCES E WILL BE THU AND FRI.

ABQ AA 062/091 063/093 065 40101
SAF AA 052/088 054/089 056 40111
TCC AA 062/094 064/096 065 40100

.ABQ...NONE.

CHJ

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Union

When
August 17, 5:15 PM MST
Where
Union County, Grenville
Measured
1.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
36.600, -103.600

Marble to golfball size hail covering Highway 87 at Grenville.

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, August 2001

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: 5263331.