Hail, Santa Fe
- When
- July 9, 2:45 PM MST
- Where
- Santa Fe County, Edgewood
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 35.067, -106.200
Hail in New Mexico, July 9, 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 9, 1:50 PM MST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 1:50 PM MST, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 250 PM MDT TUE JUL 9 2002 ISOLATED TSTMS E AND SCT W TONIGHT...MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. MODELS CONSISTENT IN ADVERTISING SOME SORT OF WIND SHIFT/CONVERGENCE PUSHING INTO NE NM WED ALONG WITH SLIGHT COOLING ALOFT TO ENHANCE TSTM DEVELOPMENT CHANCES WED AFTN. WILL MENTION MODERATE E CANYON WIND EVENT...20 TO 30 MPH...FOR RG VALLEY WED EVE/NITE AS A RESULT OF NE NM AFTN CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY. EXPECT TSTMS TO CONTINUE MOVING S INTO SE PLAINS WED NITE. DRYING TREND BEGINS IN THE NE THURS BEHIND FRONTAL FEATURE...BUT WITH CHC/SCT TSTMS ELSEWHERE FOR AFTN AND EVE. NORTHERLY FLOW OF DRIER AIR AROUND ID/UT HIGH ALOFT PUSHES INTO NRN NM FRI...THEN FURTHER S FOR SAT RESULTING IN DECREASED AREAL COVERAGE OF TSTMS. MEXICAN/MONSOONAL MOISTURE REMAINS BLOCKED FROM MOVG NORTH INTO WRN NM BY THE UTAH HIGH AND RESULTANT N THRU E FLOW AROUND THE HIGH. THIS MOISTURE MAY MAKE A RUN FOR SRN AZ SUN INTO TUE...AND IF UTAH HIGH BREAKS DOWN EARLY NEXT WEEK...MOISTURE COULD SEEP E INTO NM FOR MIDWEEK ON. STAY TUNED. ABQ BB 066/089 066/089 066 07333 SAF BB 057/084 057/084 057 07444 TCC BB 067/088 065/087 066 07134 .ABQ...NONE. EAP
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:43 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
- Heat in California, July 9 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 9, 2002
- Wildfire in Oregon, July 9 to 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in North Dakota, July 9 to 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, July 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in West Virginia, July 9 to 10, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 9, 2002
- Tornado in Indiana, July 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 9, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 9, 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: 5307692.