Hail, Otero
- When
- June 24, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Otero County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.000, -103.580
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 24, 1968
3 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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.
Hail, Bent
- When
- June 24, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Bent County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.080, -103.180
Tornado, Prowers
- When
- June 24, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Prowers County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 37.980, -102.300
Tornado, Prowers
- When
- June 24, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Prowers County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.050, -102.100
Tornado, Prowers
- When
- June 24, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Prowers County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.070, -102.120
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 in Missouri, June 24, 1968
- Tornadoes in Texas, June 24, 1968
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 24, 1968
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 24, 1968
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 24, 1968
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, June 24, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 24, 1968
- Tornado in Louisiana, June 24, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 24, 1968
- Tornado in Ohio, June 24, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 24, 1968
More
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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: 9987412, 9987413, 9987414, 9987627, 9987628.