Hail, Kit Carson
- When
- July 4, 1:30 AM CST
- Where
- Kit Carson County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.300, -102.270
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, July 4, 1987
7 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
- 8
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
7 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Arapahoe
- When
- July 4, 4:12 PM CST
- Where
- Arapahoe County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.720, -104.830
Hail, Larimer
- When
- July 4, 4:13 PM CST
- Where
- Larimer County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -105.300
Hail, Larimer
- When
- July 4, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Larimer County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -105.300
Hail, Adams
- When
- July 4, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.720, -104.300
Tornado, Adams
- When
- July 4, 4:00 PM MST
- Where
- Adams County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.8 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.830, -104.500
Hail, Logan
- When
- July 4, 6:26 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.630, -103.180
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- July 4, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.370, -103.570
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 4, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 4, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 4, 1987
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 4, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 4, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 4, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 4, 1987
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 4, 1987
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 4, 1987
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1987Warnings in Colorado, July 1987
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: 9988181, 9988183, 9988184, 9988185, 9988186, 9988182, 9988187, 9988188.