Hail, Weld
- When
- May 16, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Weld County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.530, -103.780
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 16, 1991
7 tornado, 2 hail, 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
- 9
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 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Logan
- When
- May 16, 1:38 PM MST
- Where
- Logan County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.800, -102.930
Hail, Kit Carson
- When
- May 16, 2:44 PM CST
- Where
- Kit Carson County
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.220, -102.270
Tornado, Washington
- When
- May 16, 1:46 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.970, -102.920
Tornado, Kit Carson
- When
- May 16, 2:20 PM MST
- Where
- Kit Carson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.350, -102.320
Tornado, Kit Carson
- When
- May 16, 2:24 PM MST
- Where
- Kit Carson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.130, -102.270
Tornado, Yuma
- When
- May 16, 5:45 PM MST
- Where
- Yuma County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.330, -102.100
Tornado, Douglas
- When
- May 16, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.370, -104.870
Tornado, Douglas
- When
- May 16, 8:30 PM MST
- Where
- Douglas County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.370, -104.870
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 Kansas, May 16, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 16, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 16, 1991
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 16, 1991
- Tornado in Montana, May 16, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 16, 1991
- Tornadoes and Hail in Florida, May 16, 1991
- Hail in Missouri, May 16, 1991
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Illinois, May 16, 1991
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 16, 1991
- Hail in Mississippi, May 16, 1991
- Hail in Arkansas, May 16, 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: 9988035, 9988031, 9988036, 9988032, 9988033, 9988034, 9988037, 9988039, 9988038.