Hail, Yuma
- When
- May 15, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Yuma County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.650, -102.680
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, May 15, 1986
3 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
- 4
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 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Washington
- When
- May 15, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Washington County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.670, -102.850
Tornado, Crowley
- When
- May 15, 4:15 PM MST
- Where
- Crowley County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.200, -103.670
Hail, Yuma
- When
- May 15, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Yuma County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.620, -102.600
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 Missouri, May 15, 1986
- Tornado in Michigan, May 15, 1986
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, May 15, 1986
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 15, 1986
- Tornadoes and Hail in Ohio, May 15, 1986
- Hail in Kansas, May 15, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 15, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 15, 1986
- Hail in Tennessee, May 15, 1986
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 15, 1986
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1986Warnings in Colorado, May 1986
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: 9984744, 9984745, 9984743, 9984746.