Hail, Phillips
- When
- May 21, 12:45 AM CST
- Where
- Phillips County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.630, -102.620
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 21, 1989
5 hail, 3 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
- $275,000
- 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
5 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- May 21, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cheyenne County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.650, -102.780
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 21, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -102.770
Hail, Prowers
- When
- May 21, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Prowers County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.130, -102.580
Tornado, Cheyenne
- When
- May 21, 5:38 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.930, -102.780
Hail, Prowers
- When
- May 21, 7:09 PM CST
- Where
- Prowers County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.050, -102.120
Tornado, Kiowa
- When
- May 21, 6:15 PM MST
- Where
- Kiowa County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.420, -102.680
Tornado, Prowers
- When
- May 21, 7:30 PM MST
- Where
- Prowers County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.050, -102.170
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 and Hail in Kansas, May 21, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 21, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 21, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 21, 1989
- Hail in Nebraska, May 21, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, May 21, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 21, 1989
- Hail in North Carolina, May 21, 1989
- Hail in South Dakota, May 21, 1989
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1989Every state in 1989This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1989Warnings in Colorado, May 1989
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: 9987058, 9987060, 9987061, 9987063, 9987059, 9987064, 9987062, 9987065.