Hail, Weld
- When
- July 14, 3:20 PM CST
- Where
- Weld County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -104.800
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, July 14, 1961
1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- 2
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
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Las Animas
- When
- July 14, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Las Animas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 7.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.200, -103.500
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, July 14, 1961
- Tornado in Florida, July 14, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 14, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 14, 1961
- Hail in Iowa, July 14, 1961
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 14, 1961
- Hail in Louisiana, July 14, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 14, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 14, 1961
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1961Every state in 1961This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1961
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: 9992555, 9992556.