Hail, Pueblo
- When
- June 4, 3:50 PM MST to 3:55 PM MST
- Where
- Pueblo County, Colorado City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.920, -104.870
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, June 4, 1997
2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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 Pueblo radar (KPUX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:48 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Custer
- When
- June 4, 3:58 PM MST to 4:11 PM MST
- Where
- Custer County, Westcliffe
- Coordinates
- 38.109, -105.367 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado, Custer
- When
- June 4, 4:05 PM MST to 4:06 PM MST
- Where
- Custer County, 3 mi ESE of Westcliffe
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.120, -105.420
A tornado briefly occurred in an open field southeast of Westcliffe. There was no known damage.
Hail, Pueblo
- When
- June 4, 4:30 PM MST to 4:35 PM MST
- Where
- Pueblo County, Colorado City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 37.920, -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.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- 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
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- Hail in North Dakota, June 4, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in Texas, June 4 to 5, 1997
- Hail in Texas, June 4, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, June 4, 1997
- Hail in Texas, June 4, 1997
- Hail in Colorado, June 4, 1997
- Hail in Minnesota, June 4, 1997
- Hail in Minnesota, June 4, 1997
- Hail in Montana, June 4, 1997
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1997Warnings in Colorado, June 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: 5603266, 5603268, 5603269, 5603267.