New Mexico, 2001

Hail in New Mexico, May 17, 2001

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

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • 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 May 17, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
300 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

UPSLOPE GENERATED BY OVERNIGHT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY RESULTED IN EARLY
CONVECTION EAST SLOPES OF SANGRES. FRONT DROPPING IN FROM NORTH THIS
AFTN/EVENING. SHORTWAVE MOVING SEWD ACROSS AREA TNGT LIKELY TO KEEP
CONVECTION GOING TIL LATE EAST WITH SOME SVR PSBL THIS EVENING. WILL
ASSUME THAT CONVECTION WILL AID EAST WINDS BREAKING THRU INTO CNTRL
NM OVERNIGHT INCREASING AVBL MOISTURE. EXTREMELY DRY AIRMASS CNTRL
VLYS AND NW THIS AFTN BUT IF EAST WINDS ARRIVE BEFORE SHORTWAVE
PASSES...COULD STILL TRIGGER ISOLD CONVECTION WEST OF CNTRL MTNS
THIS EVENING. WITH PROSPECT OF MORE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...WILL ALSO
STICK WITH TERRAIN GENERATED ISOLD/SLGT CHC DIURNAL POPS FRIDAY AS
IN CURRENT FCST EVEN THOUGH SHOULD BE SOME LARGER SCALE SUBSIDENCE
AS HEIGHTS RISE BEHIND DEPARTING SHORTWAVE. MORE MOISTURE/CLDS
LIKELY TO RESULT IN LITTLE COOLER TEMPS WEST AND SE. NERN CRNR HAS
ALREADY COOLED CONSIDERABLY TDA BUT EXPECT MINOR ADDITIONAL COOLING
FRI BEHIND FRONT. SAT IS A REAL PROBLEM IN REGARD TO EFFECTS OF
IMPULSES ROTATING OUT AHEAD OF UPR LOW WEST OF BAJA TDA WHICH WILL
BEGIN MOVING INTO NWRN MEXICO BY THEN. LITTLE FAITH IN MODELED
DETAILS BUT STABILITY SHOULD BE DIMINISHING WHILE SHORTWAVE MOVING
ALONG CANADIAN BORDER SHOULD BRING ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD
DOWN THE PLAINS INTO NERN CRNR NM. WILL INCREASE POPS A BIT
STATEWIDE FOR SAT WITH SOME MINOR ADDITIONAL COOLING WEST.

FOR EXTENDED...NWLY FLOW DEVELOPING SUNDAY BEHIND DEPARTING UPPER
TROUGH AND PERSISTING THROUGH MIDWEEK. SHOULD BE SOME ADDITIONAL
WEAK SURGES DOWN THE PLAINS AT TIMES IN THIS REGIME SO WILL MAINTAIN
LOW POPS EAST SLOPES EASTWARD AND MOSTLY DRY PATTERN WEST OF CENTRAL
MOUNTAINS. TEMPS UP AND DOWN EAST BUT NOT TOO FAR OFF SEASONAL WHILE
WEST SHOULD AVERAGE BIT ABOVE SEASONAL. MJF

ABQ BB 057/085 056/081 053 32111
SAF BB 049/080 047/077 044 32222
TCC BB 055/080 055/080 055 32511

.ABQ...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 4:55 PM MST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
555 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0355 PM    30 N CLAYTON              NM   .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   UNION                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0525 PM    6 S ABBOTT                NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
                                          COLFAX/HARDING COUNTY LINE

0525 PM    10 N MILLS                NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   HARDING                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
                                          COLFAX/HARDING COUNTY LINE

CSM
Local storm report, May 17, 6:15 PM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
715 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PM    4 NE ABBOTT               NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER

0610 PM    20 SSW GRENVILLE          NM   .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   UNION                          DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER
                                          IN PASAMONTE

0630 PM    6 S SANTA ROSA            NM   .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   GUADALUPE                      DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER

0708 PM    6 S ABBOTT                NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
                                          COLFAX/HARDING COUNTY LINE

0708 PM    10 N MILLS                NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   HARDING                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
                                          COLFAX/HARDING COUNTY LINE

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Quay

When
May 17, 8:25 PM MST
Where
Quay County, Logan
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
35.367, -103.417

What these are

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

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5244419.