Hail, Costilla
- When
- August 7, 3:00 PM MST to 3:30 PM MST
- Where
- Costilla County, San Luis
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Property damage
- $450,000
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 37.200, -105.430
Hail in Colorado, August 7, 1996
Strong winds combined with the great volume of hail to produce extensive damage to structures and crops.
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
- $450,000
- Crop damage
- $250,000
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.
Strong winds combined with the great volume of hail to produce extensive damage to structures and crops.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 178 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:01 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Tornado in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, August 7, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, August 7, 1996
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Tornado in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Tornado in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, August 7, 1996
- Flash Flood in Georgia, August 7, 1996
More
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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: 5566634.