Hail, Guadalupe
- When
- June 4, 12:50 PM MST
- Where
- Guadalupe County, 17 mi W of Santa Rosa
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.933, -104.983
Hail in New Mexico, June 4, 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 4, 2:12 AM MST, 10 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:12 AM MST, 10 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 312 AM MDT TUE JUN 4 2002 UPPER LOW TAKING SHAPE OVER SE AZ PER LATEST WV IMAGERY. COLD FRONT HEADED DOWN THE EASTERN PLAINS OF CO...NOW NOSING INTO NE NM. LATEST DATA POINTS TO THIS FRONT BANKING UP AGAINST THE EAST SLOPES OF THE SANGRES...SANDIAS AND MANZANOS TODAY AND MAKING SOUTHWARD PROGRESS TO NEAR DE BACA AND ROOSEVELT COUNTIES...STALLING OUT FOR A SHORT PERIOD AND THEN HEADING FURTHER SOUTH AND WEST TONIGHT. TEMPS ACROSS NE NM WILL BE 15-25 DEGREES COOLER THAN YESTERDAY. THIS COOLER AIR WILL SPREAD SOUTH AND WEST TONIGHT AND TOMORROW...BRINGING COOLER TEMPS TO MOST OF THE STATE BY WEDNESDAY. MODELS AGREE ON THE CURRENT CLOSED CIRCULATION OVER SE AZ OPENING UP LATER TODAY AND MOVING OUT OVER NM. INSTABILITY WILL BE GREATEST ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WHERE SOME STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE. STORMS BEHIND THE FRONT WONT BE AS DEEP...BUT GIVEN THE COOL SURFACE AIRMASS...LARGE HAIL SHOULD BE ABLE TO REACH THE SURFACE. HIGHEST POPS TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL BE OVER THE NORTHEAST QUARTER...WHERE WETTING RAINS AND HIGHER RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL HELP OUT FIRE FIGHTERS. EAST WINDS WILL BLOW THROUGH THE GAPS ALONG THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN LATER TODAY...BUT HOW EARLY? THIS LARGELY DEPENDS ON CONVECTION EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS...BUT GIVEN THE WELL DEFINED CIRCULATION TO OUR SW...WHICH THE MODELS MAY BE OPENING UP TOO FAST...WILL FAVOR THE EAST WINDS BREAKING THROUGH SOONER THAN MOS GUIDANCE INDICATES...SO SOMETIME BETWEEN 3-6PM TODAY. THIS WILL HELP DEEPEN EXISTING CONVECTION ALONG AND WEST OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND GIVE US A DECENT SHOT AT WETTING RAIN THIS EVENING. MODELS SHOW A SECOND LOW FORMING OVER SE AZ TONIGHT AND SINKING SOUTH TO OVER NW MEXICO AND HANGING AROUND TIL FRIDAY...WHEN IT WILL OPEN UP AND GET PUSHED NE OVER NM BY A BIG-OL TROUGH PUSHING INTO THE WEST COAST. WILL STRETCH OUT SLIGHT CHANCE POPS THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY BASED ON LATEST ECMWF/NOGAPS AND THEN TREND TOWARD CLIMO. CA ABQ BE 085/058 078/057 084 50232 SAF EE 083/052 076/050 081 50353 TCC EE 076/056 066/055 076 50363 .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
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 4 to 5, 2002
- Flash Flood in Wisconsin, June 4, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, June 4, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 4, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, June 4, 2002
- Flood in Iowa, June 4, 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: 5300310.