Hail, Union
- When
- March 22, 5:25 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, Grenville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.600, -103.600
Nickel size hail covering ground to two inches deep at Grenville.
Hail in New Mexico, March 22, 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 Mar 22, 2:48 PM MST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 2:48 PM MST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 248 PM MST THU MAR 22 2001 WEAK FRONT/WINDSHIFT DOWN PLAINS RESULTED IN COOLING TODAY NE/ECNTRL STILL ABOVE SEASONAL) WITH ONLY SLIGHT EFFECT SE. BIT MORE CLOUDINESS WEST HAS DROPPED TEMPS A COUPLE DEGS MOST AREAS. DWPTS INCREASED TO UPR 30S/LWR 40S EAST WITH UPSLOPE/CONVERGENCE NEAR EAST SLOPES OF MTNS AND NEG LI SO FEW SHWRS/ISOLD TSTMS STILL REASONABLE LATE THIS AFTN/EVENING. RECENT LIGHTNING STRIKES NE HIGHLANDS MAKE ABOVE DISCUSSION SUPERFLUOUS. LOW LEVEL FLOW BECOMING SELY OVER PLAINS FRIDAY...INCREASING DWPTS FURTHER AS SHORTWAVE APPROACHES AND SOME MID LEVEL COOLING RESULTS IN GREATER INSTABILITY. THUS EXPECT MORE AND STRONGER CONVECTION EAST FRIDAY WITH AFTN TEMPS LTL WARMER THAN FWC GUID AND SOME VEERING OF WINDS WITH HEIGHT. OVER WEST...JUST PARTLY CLOUDY TNGT/FRI WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER BUT STILL MILD TEMPS FRI. SHOULD SEE FEW SHWRS BUT MOSTLY VIRGA WITH HIGH CLOUD BASES AND DRY LOWER LEVELS. STRONGER COLD FRONT PUSHING SEWD DOWN GREAT PLAINS TOWARDS MS VLY WILL BACKDOOR EASTERN NM FRI NIGHT/SAT. WILL GO BELOW FWC GUID FOR SAT OVER THE EAST WITH SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS. SOME EAST WIND LEAKAGE INTO RIO GRANDE VALLEY LATE FRI NIGHT/SAT MRNG FOR SLIGHT COOLING SAT WHILE LITTLE EFFECT WRN THIRD WHERE HEIGHTS WILL ALREADY BE RISING. REBUILDING UPPER RIDGE NUDGING OVER STATE BY SUNDAY FOR FAIR WX WITH COOL AIR RECEDING OUT OF EAST. MON/TUE GENERALLY DRY WITH UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPS BUT SEASONABLY BREEZY AFTNS UNDER FLAT AND DIRTY UPPER RIDGE...THEN STRONGER SHORTWAVE WED FOR WINDY CONDITIONS MOST AREAS ALONG WITH SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS NRN MTNS.g..THEN DRY BUT COOLER THU AS SFC HIGH PUSHES IN FROM NORTH BEHIND DEPARTING SHORTWAVE. MJF ABQ BB 043/071 043/067 039 32011 SAF BB 034/067 034/063 031 32011 TCC BC 042/072 039/055 038 32133 .ABQ...NONE.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:23 UTC.
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 Flooding and Flooding in Massachusetts, March 22 to 31, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Rhode Island, March 22 to 24, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 22 to 23, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 22 to 23, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 22 to 23, 2001
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 22 to 23, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 22, 2001
- Winter Storm in New York, March 22 to 23, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, March 22 to 23, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, March 22, 2001
- Strong Wind in Maine, March 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, March 22 to 23, 2001
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, March 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: 5234854.