Hail, Lincoln
- When
- August 28, 11:54 AM MST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 12 mi S of Limon
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.100, -103.700
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, August 28, 1997
3 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
- 4
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.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- August 28, 4:33 PM MST to 4:43 PM MST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 15 mi NW of Karval
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -103.730
Hail, Lincoln
- When
- August 28, 4:39 PM MST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 16 mi NW of Karval
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.900, -103.750
Tornado, Sedgwick
- When
- August 28, 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Sedgwick County, 13 mi SE of Julesburg
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.850, -102.080
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 Nebraska, August 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, August 28 to 29, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nevada, August 28, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 28, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, August 28, 1997
- Flash Flooding in New Hampshire, August 28, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 28, 1997
- Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, August 28, 1997
- Hail in Montana, August 28, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, August 28, 1997
- Hail in New York, August 28, 1997
- Hail in Vermont, August 28, 1997
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1997Warnings in Colorado, August 1997
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: 5614159, 5614161, 5614160, 5614162.