Hail, Colfax
- When
- May 28, 3:10 PM MST
- Where
- Colfax County, 5 mi S of Vermejo Park
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 36.633, -105.000
Hail in New Mexico, May 28, 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 May 28, 2:30 PM MST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:30 PM MST, 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 330 PM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 CLOUD COVER TODAY HAS KEPT TEMPERATURES LOWER THAN PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MIGRATING OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST IS GENERATING SIGNIFICANT DRYING ACROSS AZ AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO. ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE STATE...LOW LEVEL EAST AND NORTHEAST WINDS HAVE KEPT SURFACE AIR MASS SUFFICIENTLY MOIST. ADDITIONAL DAYTIME HEATING HAS CAUSED THE AIR MASS TO BECOME RATHER UNSTABLE AND IS PRIMED FOR LATE DAY/OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL PROPAGATE INTO THE UNSTABLE AIR MASS AND DEVELOP INTO NOCTURNAL MCC. PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT LOOKS TO BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL BE PASSING THROUGH NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SOMETIME WEDNESDAY AND MOST AREAS WILL RETURN TO DRY AND WARM. THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE STATE WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER AND CONTINUE TO HAVE SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE HIGHER TERRAIN. BY FRIDAY UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE STATE AND LASTS INTO THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHES THE REGION LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...BRINGING INCREASED MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS AND BREEZY CONDITITONS. ABQ BU 056/088 055/088 057 33000 SAF BU 050/080 050/082 048 33101 TCC BB 057/087 055/088 058 33211 .ABQ...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 10:00 AM MST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-281500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM...CORRECTED 1100 AM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 ...CORRECTED TO ADD CURRY COUNTY... NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. WEATHER SYNOPSIS...LOW LEVEL EAST AND NORTHEAST WINDS HAVE INCREASED THE SURFACE MOISTURE ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOWER PRESSURE FROM THE WEST COULD TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE...SOME COULD BECOME SEVERE. COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO WHERE SKYWARN SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... UNION HARDING CURRY QUAY ROOSEVELT THIS OUTLOOK PRODUCT IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL HAZARDOUS OR LIFE THREATENING WEATHER. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE SPECIFIC STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS RELATED TO FLASH FLOODS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. FOR FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO USE PRODUCT WWUS84 KMAF. FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO USE PRODUCT WWUS84 KEPZ.
Special weather statement, May 28, 10:37 AM MST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-281500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM...CORRECTED 1100 AM MDT MON MAY 28 2001 ...CORRECTED TO ADD CURRY COUNTY... NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS FAR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. WEATHER SYNOPSIS...LOW LEVEL EAST AND NORTHEAST WINDS HAVE INCREASED THE SURFACE MOISTURE ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOWER PRESSURE FROM THE WEST COULD TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE...SOME COULD BECOME SEVERE. COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO WHERE SKYWARN SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... UNION HARDING CURRY QUAY ROOSEVELT THIS OUTLOOK PRODUCT IS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL HAZARDOUS OR LIFE THREATENING WEATHER. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE SPECIFIC STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS RELATED TO FLASH FLOODS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. FOR FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO USE PRODUCT WWUS84 KMAF. FOR SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICON USE PRODUCT WWUS84 KEPZ.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 215 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:08 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Dense Fog in Florida, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in New York, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 28, 2001
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, May 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 28, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, May 28, 2001
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 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: 5244403.