Hail, Las Animas
- When
- June 19, 6:16 PM MST to 6:21 PM MST
- Where
- Las Animas County, Hoehne
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 37.283, -104.383
Hail in Colorado, June 19, 2001
1 hail, 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
- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 1:59 PM MST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:59 PM MST, 4 hours 17 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 259 PM MDT TUE JUN 19 2001 WEATHER CONCERNS THIS PACKAGE INCLUDE CHANCES OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CWFA WEDNESDAY AND POSSIBLY AGAIN THURSDAY...POPS AND COOL TEMPERATURES INTO THURSDAY AND AMOUNT OF WARM-UP THIS WEEKEND. AM SOMEWHAT HANDICAPPED BY LACK OF DATA DUE TO QUARTERLY NCEP BACK-UP TEST HAS BEEN CONDUCTED TODAY. CWFA CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES SOME 20+F COOLER THAN NOTED ON MONDAY THANKS TO FRONT THAT BLASTED THROUGH REGION LAST NIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THE COOLER TEMPERATURES...MORE CLOUDS ARE NOTED TODAY AS COMPARED TO YESTERDAY AS WELL AS SOME ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...ESPECIALLY IN SAGUACHE AND FREMONT COUNTY. LATEST MM5 INDICATES THAT UPPER LEVEL ZONAL TO NORTHWEST FLOW IN CONTROL INTO WEDNESDAY WITH UPPER HIGH DEVELOPING IN THE VICINITY OF THE FOUR-CORNERS ON THURSDAY...WHILE AT THE SURFACE A HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO LATER WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT ALLOWING CONTINUED UPSLOPE FLOW AND INCREASING FAVORABLE MOISTURE TO DEVELOP. IN ADDITION...300-200MB PT VRT BECOMES MORE FAVORABLE LATER WEDNESDAY AND THIS COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE SHEAR SHOULD BE ABLE TO PRODUCE STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SEE LATEST SPC DAY2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK. LATEST PROJECTED CAPES OVER EASTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY INTO BACA COUNTY FOR LATE WEDNESDAY ARE 2000 J/KG WITH PROJECTED LI'S OF -4 AND K INDEXES APPROACHING 40. SO FOR SENSIBLE WEATHER...WILL GO WITH WIDELY SCATTERED POPS EASTERN MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS TONIGHT ALONG WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR VALUES NOTED MONDAY MORNING. ZONES 60/61 SHOULD REMAIN BASICALLY DRY TONIGHT DUE TO LOWER ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE. SCATTERED PRECIPITATION COVERAGE ON TAP FROM THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS INTO THE PLAINS WEDNESDAY...WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY WITH STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT FROM THE I-25 CORRIDOR EAST TO THE KANSAS BORDER. TEMPERATURES SHOULD REMAIN RELATIVELY COOL THROUGH THURSDAY. FOR THE EXTENDED...(FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY)...LATEST MRF SUGGESTS THAT THE UPPER HIGH REMAINS IN THE VICINITY OF THE FOUR CORNERS REGION THROUGH SUNDAY AND THEN BEGINS TO REPOSITION ITSELF OVER AND TO THE EAST OF THE CWFA BY TUESDAY. THIS SHOULD ALLOW WARMING TEMPERATURES BEGINNING FRIDAY AND LASTING INTO TUESDAY AND A SCALING BACK OF POPS TO GENERALLY A SLIGHT CHANCE CATEGORY AS 850/700MB MOISTURE/THETA-E AND THE DAILY HEATING CYCLE PERMIT. .PUB...NONE.
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 132 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:15 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
- Heat in Illinois, June 19, 2001
- Flooding in Kansas, June 19 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Kansas, June 19, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 19 to 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 19, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, June 19, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 19, 2001
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, June 2001
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: 5251539.