Hail, El Paso
- When
- July 19, 4:38 PM CST
- Where
- El Paso County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.700, -104.500
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, July 19, 1956
3 tornado, 2 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
- $250
- 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.
Event by event
3 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Bent
- When
- July 19, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bent County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -103.250
Tornado, Bent
- When
- July 19, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bent County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -103.250
Tornado, Bent
- When
- July 19, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bent County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -103.250
Hail, Custer
- When
- July 19, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Custer County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.080, -105.080
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Kentucky, July 19, 1956
- Tornado in Kansas, July 19, 1956
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 19, 1956
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, July 19, 1956
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 19, 1956
- Hail in Wisconsin, July 19, 1956
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 19, 1956
- Hail in Montana, July 19, 1956
- Hail in Michigan, July 19, 1956
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 19, 1956
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 19, 1956
- Hail in South Dakota, July 19, 1956
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1956Every state in 1956This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1956
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: 9990292, 9990293, 9990294, 9990295, 9990296.