Hail, Harding
- When
- May 27, 12:17 PM MST
- Where
- Harding County, 10 mi N of Rosebud
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.983, -103.450
Hail in New Mexico, May 27, 2002
5 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
- 5
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 May 27, 9:40 AM MST, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:40 AM MST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1040 AM MDT MON MAY 27 2002 OVERNIGHT/EARLY CONVECTION HAS DIMINISHED BUT ALREADY GETTING CUMULUS OVER THE SW AND SC AND AN ISOLATED TSTM JUST NORTH OF TRUJILLO. LOOKS LIKE NE QUARTER TO BE THE MOST ACTIVE THIS PM AND EVE BUT CANNOT RULE OUT ANYWHERE. LEAST LIKELY FAR W. ONLY CHANGES THIS MIDDAY WERE TO ADJUST SOME POPS AND TEMPS. LOWERED TEMPS IN NC AND NE AND RAISED A LITTLE S AND W. 40 .ABQ...NONE CHJ
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
5 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Union
- When
- May 27, 12:17 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, 5 mi W of Hayden
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.967, -103.350
Hail, Union
- When
- May 27, 12:40 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, 5 mi W of Hayden
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.967, -103.350
Hail, Union
- When
- May 27, 1:43 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, 6 mi S of Amistad
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.833, -103.150
Hail, Union
- When
- May 27, 1:55 PM MST
- Where
- Union County, 11 mi SE of Amistad
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.800, -103.017
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27 to 28, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Arkansas, May 27, 2002
- Rip Current in Florida, May 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Illinois, May 27, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2002
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 27, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Maryland, May 27, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 27, 2002
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Massachusetts, May 27, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 27, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, May 27, 2002
- Flash Flood in New York, May 27, 2002
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 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: 5288222, 5288223, 5288224, 5288225, 5288226.