Hail, Santa Fe
- When
- May 15, 2:18 PM MST
- Where
- Santa Fe County, 13 mi W of Stanley
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 35.150, -106.217
One inch diameter hail covering ground to two inch depth at Cedar Grove.
Hail in New Mexico, May 15, 2005
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 May 15, 2:08 PM MST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 2:08 PM MST, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 308 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 .DISCUSSION...BUSY WEATHER DAY THUNDERSTORMWISE SO WILL HAVE TO MAKE THIS SHORT. TODAY INTO TONIGHT LOOKS LIKELY TO BE THE BUSIEST/WETTEST PERIOD FOR THE NEXT 5 OR MAYBE 7 DAYS AS SHORT WAVE MOVING SE ACROSS CENTRAL NM. FAR SE AND E CENTRAL NM HAS EXPERIENCED LOW CLOUDS FOR TOO LONG TODAY TO ALLOW FOR DECENT WARMING/DESTABILIZATION SO CURRENT STORMS COMING OFF E SLOPES CENTRAL MTN CHAIN MAY HAVE TROUBLE MAINTAINING INTENSITY...BUT STILL WILL KEEP IN SEVERE WORDING FOR NOW AS SHORT WAVE MAY ALSO STILL PROVIDE ENOUGH ENERGY AND LIFT TO ALLOW NEAR SEVERE LIMITS STORMS TO MANAGE FOR AWHILE INTO EVENING. DRY WX FOR MOST OF REST OF PERIOD MOST AREAS SO LITTLE CHANGE IN THOSE WX/PCPN GRIDS. 12Z GFS SHOWING MUCH MORE AMPLIFIED PATTERN FOR THE LATE WEEK AND WEEKEND PERIOD THAN 06Z RUN...BUT SINCE THIS IS FIRST RUN SHOWING THIS MUCH OF A CHANGE WILL NOT BITE ON THIS LURE JUST YET AND KEEP GRIDS MOSTLY AS IS. GOTTA GO DUE TO ISSUANCE OF TSRA WATCH. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... FARMINGTON...................... 46 84 51 77 / 0 0 0 0 GALLUP.......................... 38 80 43 75 / 0 0 0 0 GRANTS.......................... 41 80 45 77 / 0 0 0 0 GLENWOOD........................ 42 88 46 86 / 0 0 0 0 CHAMA........................... 34 73 38 70 / 10 0 0 10 LOS ALAMOS...................... 44 78 46 76 / 20 0 0 0 RED RIVER....................... 33 66 36 65 / 20 0 0 10 TAOS............................ 38 76 41 74 / 20 0 0 10 SANTA FE........................ 43 77 45 76 / 20 0 0 0 SANTA FE AIRPORT................ 45 80 47 78 / 20 0 0 0 ESPANOLA........................ 44 82 47 81 / 20 0 0 0 ALBUQUERQUE HEIGHTS............. 54 84 56 82 / 20 0 0 0 ALBUQUERQUE VALLEY.............. 52 85 54 83 / 20 0 0 0 ALBUQUERQUE FOOTHILLS........... 51 82 53 80 / 30 0 0 0 ALBUQUERQUE WEST MESA........... 52 84 54 82 / 20 0 0 0 SOCORRO......................... 52 88 55 87 / 20 0 0 0 SANDIA PARK/CEDAR CREST......... 45 77 47 75 / 30 0 0 0 MORIARTY/ESTANCIA............... 45 79 48 78 / 30 0 0 0 CARRIZOZO....................... 50 82 54 84 / 30 0 0 0 RUIDOSO......................... 46 77 51 78 / 40 0 0 0 RATON........................... 42 80 45 79 / 30 0 0 0 LAS VEGAS....................... 43 78 47 77 / 30 0 0 0 ROY............................. 44 79 48 80 / 30 0 0 0 CLAYTON......................... 50 81 53 84 / 30 10 10 0 SANTA ROSA...................... 49 83 53 85 / 40 0 0 0 TUCUMCARI....................... 53 85 58 90 / 40 10 10 0 FORT SUMNER..................... 53 84 57 88 / 40 10 10 0 CLOVIS.......................... 53 84 56 89 / 50 10 10 0 PORTALES........................ 55 84 58 89 / 50 10 10 0 ROSWELL......................... 54 85 59 93 / 50 10 10 0 && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 43
Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 12:00 PM MST, 2 hours 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 100 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 NMZ001>021-026-161200- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-NORTHWEST PLATEAU-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- 100 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY EASTWARD INTO LINCOLN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND FROM THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN EASTWARD TO THE TEXAS LINE LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 43
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:18 UTC.
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
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 15, 2005
- Flooding in Nevada, May 15 to 31, 2005
- Flood and Heavy Rain in California, May 15 to 16, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 15, 2005
- Flash Flooding in Texas, May 15, 2005
- Hail in North Carolina, May 15, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, May 15, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, May 15, 2005
- Flood in Alaska, May 15 to 19, 2005
- Flash Flood in Texas, May 15, 2005
- Hail in South Carolina, May 15, 2005
- Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, May 15, 2005
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, May 2005
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: 5446304.