Hail, Kiowa
- When
- May 24, 4:52 PM MST to 4:57 PM MST
- Where
- Kiowa County, 11 mi W of Eads
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -102.970
Tornado and Hail in Colorado, May 24, 1998
1 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
- 2
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), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:50 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Kiowa
- When
- May 24, 4:55 PM MST to 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Kiowa County, 2 mi N of Haswell
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -103.150
A brief tornado was reported north of Haswell over open country. There was no known damage.
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 Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 24 to 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 24 to 25, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 24, 1998
- Lightning Strike in West Virginia, May 24, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, May 24, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, May 24 to 26, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 24, 1998
- Tornado in Colorado, May 24, 1998
- Hail in Texas, May 24, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 24, 1998
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 24 to 25, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, May 24, 1998
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 1998Warnings in Colorado, May 1998
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: 5645941, 5645942.