Name: Damaging Wind in New Mexico, June 26, 2002
Start: 2002-06-26T20:15
End: 2002-06-26T20:15
Location: New Mexico

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $20,000
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 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:00 PM MST, 6 hours 15 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 8:13 PM MST, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
913 PM MDT WED JUN 26 2002

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0910 PM    7 S PORTALES              NM   .88 INCH HAIL
06/26/02   ROOSEVELT

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Curry

When: June 26, 8:15 PM MST
Where: Curry County, Clovis
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph)
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 34.400, -103.200

Power lines and several poles were blown down in southwest Clovis.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in New Mexico in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5300421.