Hail, Santa Fe
- When
- July 29, 12:00 PM MST
- Where
- Santa Fe County, 2 mi W of Edgewood
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 35.067, -106.233
Hail in New Mexico, July 29, 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 29, 9:20 AM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 9:20 AM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1020 AM MDT MON JUL 29 2002 TSTM COMPLEX OVER TEXAS HAS GENERATED A WESTWARD MOVING OUTFLOW WHICH IS IMPACTING FAR EASTERN CWFA ATTM WITH GUSTY EAST WINDS. AIRMASS BEHIND THIS BOUNDARY IS A BIT COOLER AND MUCH MORE MOIST. THEREFORE WILL HAVE TO ADJUST MAX TEMPS DOWN A BIT THERE THIS AFTERNOON. OTHER THAN THAT...LITTLE IF ANY CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECAST WITH BEST CHANCES FOR AFTN THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PLAINS ALONG BOUNDARY AND IN THE GILA NEAREST MEANDERING UPPER LOW. WILL MAINTAIN SMALL POPS OVER CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN...THEN MONITOR TRENDS FOR 4 PM ISSUANCE. .ABQ...NONE. KD
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 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 Ohio, July 29, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 29, 2002
- Wildfire in California, July 29 to 31, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 29, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 29, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, July 29, 2002
- Dust Storm and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 29, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 29, 2002
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 29, 2002
- Tornado in Florida, July 29, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 29, 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: 5307768.