Hail, Chaves
- When
- July 3, 6:59 PM MST
- Where
- Chaves County, 9 mi SE of Roswell
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 33.283, -104.400
Hail in New Mexico, July 3, 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 3, 2:05 PM MST, 4 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:05 PM MST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 305 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002 LOW ALOFT HEADING EAST FROM WRN AZ HAS ERODED THE 4 CORNERS HIGH. MID LVL PACIFIC MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING LOW ALOFT ALONG WITH COOL POOL IS GENERATING CONVECTION IN NRN AZ AND WRN NM. LOW WEAKENS AS IT TREKS EAST BUT LINGERING COOL POOL OF AIR ALOFT WILL GENERATE ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS ACROSS NRN AND ERN NM THUR AND THUR NITE. CONVECTION IN THE ERN NM WILL BE AIDED BY THE INFLUX OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FM TX. EFFECTS OF COOL POOL LINGER INTO FRIDAY...MAINLY NORTH. RIDGE ALOFT REBUILDS OVR CO/UT/WY THIS WEEKEND THEN POSSIBLY MIGRATING A BIT FURTHER NW EARLY NEXT WEEK. PATTERN ALLOWS FOR LOW LVL EASTERLY FLOW INTRUSIONS INTO ERN PLAINS BUT NOT FAVORABLE FOR WIDESPREAD AFTN TSTM ACTIVITY UNTIL THE MEXICAN MOISTURE TAP BECOMES AVBL. NOT AS HOT...ESPCLY ERN PLAINS. ABQ EB 069/091 066/091 066 07333 SAF EB 059/085 056/086 054 07444 TCC BB 068/084 066/083 065 07323 .ABQ...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 3, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, July 3 to 4, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Virginia, July 3, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 3, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 3, 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: 5307686.