Funnel Cloud, Mineral
- When
- July 30, 11:55 AM MST to 12:05 PM MST
- Where
- Mineral County, 8 mi NW of Spar City
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.669, -106.924 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 30, 1999
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 3
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
1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, El Paso
- When
- July 30, 2:55 PM MST to 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- El Paso County, Palmer Lake
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.120, -104.920
Thunderstorm Wind, Pueblo
- When
- July 30, 5:25 PM MST
- Where
- Pueblo County, 6 mi S of Pueblo
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.180, -104.600
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 30 to 31, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 30 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Alabama, July 30, 1999
- Heat in Arkansas, July 30, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, July 30, 1999
- Heat in Arkansas, July 30, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, July 30, 1999
- Flood and Hail in Iowa, July 30 to 31, 1999
- Flash Flood in Guam, July 30, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, July 30, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 30, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 30, 1999
More
Every storm in Colorado in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 1999
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: 5716019, 5716020, 5716021.