Hail, Roosevelt
- When
- June 26, 8:10 PM MST
- Where
- Roosevelt County, 7 mi S of Portales
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.083, -103.333
Hail in New Mexico, June 26, 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 26, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 300 PM MDT WED JUN 26 2002 RDG OF HIGH PRESSURE STILL DOMINATING THE WEATHER PATTERN ACROSS NEW MEXICO. HOWEVER...TODAY SEEING A MORE CONVECTION ACROSS THE WESTERN PART OF THE STATE...WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE MOVING INTO NEW MEXICO FROM ARIZONA. HAVE RAISED THE POPS A LITTLE FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST FOR THE WEST OF THE DIVIDE TO ACCOUNT FOR MORE TSRA ACTIVITY. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE POPS FOR EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AS ACTIVITY GETTING STARTING ONCE AGAIN TODAY...AM EXPECTING A SIMILAR SITUATION TO LAST NIGHT WHERE CONVECTION CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF THE NIGHT TIME HOURS. EAST CANYON WINDS A POSSIBILITY ALONG THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN TONIGHT AS SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR BEGINS TO PILE UP ON THE LEE SIDE OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. FOR TOMORROW...MORE OF THE SAME AS TODAY...HOWEVER A LITTLE LESS CONVECTION EXPECTED OVER THE WESTERN CWA. LOOKS LIKE RIDGE KEEPS ITS GRIP ON THE STATE...HOWEVER DURING THE WEEKEND WILL BEGIN TO TAKE A MORE NORTHERN MOVEMENT. WILL CONTINUE WITH POPS FOR THE DURATION OF THIS FORECAST PACKAGE...WITH HIGHER CHANCES ACROSS THE EAST IN THE MORE HUMID AIR...TAPERING OFF TO ISOLATED CHANCES WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. ABQ BB 067/092 067/092 066 16223 SAF BB 056/089 057/089 056 16222 TCC BB 065/090 066/090 065 16423= .ABQ...NONE. MARTIN
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
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 26, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in New York, June 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Indiana, June 26 to 27, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 26 to 29, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, June 26, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Minnesota, June 26, 2002
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 26, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 26, 2002
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 26, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 26, 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: 5300416.