Thunderstorm Wind, Chaffee
- When
- May 11, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Chaffee County
- Coordinates
- 38.530, -106.000
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, May 11, 1991
6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 11, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.320, -102.770
Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 11, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kiowa County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -102.770
Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- May 11, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cheyenne County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.630, -102.780
Hail, Washington
- When
- May 11, 6:23 PM CST
- Where
- Washington County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.070, -102.950
Hail, Baca
- When
- May 11, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Baca County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -102.580
Hail, Logan
- When
- May 11, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.750, -103.070
Tornado, Baca
- When
- May 11, 8:10 PM MST
- Where
- Baca County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 37.180, -102.280
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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 South Dakota, May 11, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 11, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wyoming, May 11, 1991
- Hail in Nebraska, May 11, 1991
- Hail in New Mexico, May 11, 1991
- Tornado in Montana, May 11, 1991
- Tornado in Illinois, May 11, 1991
- Tornado in Oklahoma, May 11, 1991
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 11, 1991
- Hail in Kansas, May 11, 1991
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1991Every state in 1991This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1991Warnings in Colorado, May 1991
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: 9988012, 9988013, 9988014, 9988015, 9988016, 9988017, 9988018, 9988019.