Hail, San Miguel
- When
- June 16, 5:28 PM MST
- Where
- San Miguel County, Conchas Dam
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 35.367, -104.183
Hail to nickel size covered the ground at Conchas Lake.
Hail in New Mexico, June 16, 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 Jun 16, 3:30 PM MST, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:30 PM MST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 430 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 2002 NW FLOW REGIME ALOFT TO SEE ITS LAST GASP...FOR NOW...INTO MONDAY. THEREAFTER EXPECT TO CONTINUE THE GENERAL TREND OF THE PREVIOUS FORECAST INSOFAR AS MOSTLY DRY WEATHER IN THE E...AND OF COURSE DRY WEST. WITH RIDGE SHIFTING E AND BUILDING ACROSS E NM AND W TX FROM TUE ON SHOULD EFFECTIVELY SHUT OFF ANY SUBSTANTIVE CHANCE OF CONVECTION E. DRYLINE MAY WELL SHOW A NET SLIGHT TRANSLATION WESTWARD ACROSS THE E PLAINS DURING THE TUE-THU PERIOD...BUT EXPECT IT TO BE MORE DIFFUSE DUE LARGELY TO WEAK SUBSIDENCE WITH BUILDING RIDGE. WITH THE NEVERENDING MARCH OF SHORT WAVES IN THE NW FLOW RETREATING WELL E OF NM WITH THE BUILDING OF THE RIDGE...THAT SHOULD ALSO KEEP ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY TO A MINIMUM. WILL WATCH WITH SOME INTEREST THE INVERTED UPPER TROUGH OR POSSIBLY CLOSED LOW FAR NW GULF OR SE TX AND SEE WHETHER IT MIGHT DRIFT SW THEN WESTWARD. RIGHT NOW MODELS KEEPING IT WELL E OF NM. 43 ABQ AA 065/095 064/095 064 43000 SAF AA 055/088 053/089 054 43000 TCC BB 060/091 062/093 063 43311 .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
- Tornadoes and Hail in New York, June 16, 2002
- Rip Current in New Jersey, June 16, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 16 to 22, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 16, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in New Mexico, June 16, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Connecticut, June 16, 2002
- Tornado in Connecticut, June 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 16, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 16, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 16, 2002
- High Surf in California, June 16, 2002
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, June 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: 5306588.