Hail, Bernalillo
- When
- July 10, 4:10 PM MST
- Where
- Bernalillo County, Tijeras
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 35.083, -106.383
Hail in New Mexico, July 10, 2002
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 10, 2:00 PM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:00 PM MST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 300 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2002 CHANCE ALMOST ANYWHERE FOR SHWRS/TSTMS THRU EARLY TONIGHT. BETWEEN WESTWARD MOVING DISTURBANCE ALOFT FROM ERN PLAINS TO MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS WEST...COULD SEE BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. E WIND INTO RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOR TNGT NOT LOOKING TO LAST LONG AS CONVECTION TO THE E MOVES WESTWARD INTO VALLEY AS OPPOSED TO DRIFTING S THROUGH PLAINS. ONE MORE DAY OF FAIRLY WIDESPREAD CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY THURSDAY BEFORE E TO NE STEERING FLOW ALOFT BEGINS TO GIVE WAY TO NORTHERLY FLOW ON FRIDAY. RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE TO OUR NW SLIDES TOWARD NM FOR THE WEEKEND RESULTING IN REDUCED TSTM ACTIVITY AND WARMER TEMPS SAT THRU MON. STILL COULD SEE MEXICAN MONSOON MOISTURE SLIDE INTO AZ BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...THEN OOZE/SEEP ON EAST INTO NM BY MID WEEK. IN ANY CASE WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE RAINS OF THE PAST WEEK...EVEN WITH HIT-AND-MISS NATURE OF SUCH. ABQ BB 066/091 066/091 065 07434 SAF BB 057/085 057/085 055 07544 TCC BB 067/089 067/089 066 07423 .ABQ...NONE. EAP
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:07 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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 10, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 10, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 10 to 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 10, 2002
- Blizzard in California, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 2002
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: 5307681.