Hail, Quay
- When
- July 30, 2:40 PM MST
- Where
- Quay County, 7 mi E of Tucumcari
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 35.167, -103.617
Hail in New Mexico, July 30, 2001
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
- 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 Jul 30, 2:00 PM MST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:00 PM MST, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 300 PM MDT MON JUL 30 2001 WITH OVER AN INCH OF PRECIPITABLE WATER...I AM PLANNING TO GO WITH 30 TO 50 PCT POPS ACROSS THE WEST TONIGHT. THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT THE LAST MINUTE THOUGH AS THERE IS LESS LIGHTNING ACROSS THE WEST THAN I HAD EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. TEMPS OF 78 AT GUP AND GNT EXPLAIN THE LACK OF CONVECTION. THE OVERALL PATTERN HAS THE UPPER HIGH SHIFTING EAST AS AN UPPER TROUGH GOES BY TO THE NORTH. THEN THE UPPER HIGH BEGINS TO EXPAND BACK TO THE WEST TUESDAY NIGHT. AS THE TROF TO THE NORTH PASSES BY...A SFC FRONT DROPS INTO THE NORTHEAST WEDNESDAY. AM GOING WITH CHC POPS FOR EAST ON WEDNESDAY. AS THE TROUGH PASSES BY TO THE NORTH TOMMORROW...I EXPECT SOME DRYING ACROSS OUR NORTHERN ZONES. THUS WILL GENERALLY HAVE 10 TO 20 POPS ACROSS THE NORTH FOR TUESDAY AND CONTINUED 30 TO 40 POPS IN THE SOUTHERN ZONES. LONG WAVE PATTERN CONTINUES TO APPEAR STABLE. WE ARE JUST CYCLING THROUGH A PATTERN OF TROFS DROPPING DOWN INTO THE PAC NW AND LIFTING OUT WITH THE UPPER HIGH SLOSHING BACK AND FORTH ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL STATES. CLIMO FOR EXTENDED. JWS ABQ BB 068/0u91 066/092 068 46432 SAF BB 058/087 058/089 058 46442 TCC BB 068/097 069/097 069 46533 .ABQ...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, July 30, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 30, 2001
- Heat in Minnesota, July 30 to 31, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 30, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 30, 2001
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 30, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, July 30 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 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: 5258519.