Colorado, 2001

Hail in Colorado, June 21, 2001

June 21, 2001 · NWS PUB · 4 events in 3 counties and zones

4 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

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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.

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 20, 1:15 PM MST, 10 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:15 PM MST, 10 hours 59 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO
215 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

...FORECAST CONCERNS ARE EXPECTED STORM ACTIVITY TONIGHT...
ESPECIALLY OVER THE PLAINS...

CURRENTLY: 88-D SHOWS THUNDERSTORMS FIRING OVER EASTERN MOUNTAINS
WHERE CONVECTIVE INHIBITION IS MINIMIZED.  AIRMASS OVER EASTERN
PLAINS CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE...BUT CIN (CAP) IS STILL EVIDENT IN
LAPS ANALYSIS ATTM.  DEW POINTS ACROSS ALL THE EASTERN PLAINS IN THE
50S TO LOWER 60S AND SOUTHEAST FLOW PICKING UP SOME AS SURFACE LOW
DEVELOPS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL COLO.  UPPER FLOW FROM THE
WEST-NORTHWEST SO SHEAR IS SETTING UP AS WELL.  WATER VAPOR IMAGERY
SHOWS SHORTWAVE OVER WYOMING MOVING SOUTHEAST.

TONIGHT: SHORTWAVE WILL BRUSH ACROSS AREA...WITH BEST DYNAMICS OVER
NORTHEAST COLO. HOWEVER...MID LEVEL QG FORCING SHOWS DIVERGENCE OVER
THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON.  CAPES PROGGED TO BE 1500
TO LOWER 2000S J/KG IN SOUTHEAST WITH CAP FORECAST TO BREAK BY
MIDAFTERNOON.  DECENT SHEAR PRESENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH UPPER
WINDS FROM WEST-NORTHWEST AND SURFACE WINDS FROM SOUTHEAST. AS A
RESULT A SUPERCELL OR TWO WILL PROBABLY DEVELOP OVER THE AREA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT.  HODOGRAPHS SUGGEST STORM
SPLITTING. TALK OF AN MCS DEVELOPING EITHER IN FAR SOUTHEAST COLO OR
PANHANDLES SEEMS REASONABLE WITH MESOSCALE EVOLUTION...SO WILL
LIKELY MENTION POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST LATER
TONIGHT IN ZONES. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE CWFA...ISOLATED TO WIDELY
SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING WHERE
INSTABILITY IS LESS.

THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT: WEATHER LOOKS TO BE LESS THREATENING ON
THURSDAY.  UPPER SHORTWAVE MAY BE LACKING AND FOCUS OF MOST UNSTABLE
AIR SHIFTS BACK TO THE CENTRAL PART OF CWFA. WEAK UPSLOPE EVIDENT IN
EASTERN PLAINS WITH RESIDUAL MOISTURE FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION...BUT
ATMOSPHERE MORE STABLE THAN ON WED.  BOTTOM LINE IS THAT I WILL KEEP
LOW POPS IN...SIMILAR TO GOING ZONES.  TEMPS WILL BE SIMILAR TO WEDS
READINGS DURING THE DAY.  WILL PROBABLY LEAN TOWARD MAV GUIDANCE.

FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT: STILL HAVE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO WORK WITH
ON FRIDAY ACROSS EASTERN PART OF CWFA.  AVN MODEL HINTING AT A
SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA WITH AIRMASS BECOMING UNSTABLE.
WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP LOW POPS IN FORECAST THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT.
700MB TEMPS WARM ON FRIDAY...SO HIGHS SOME 10 DEGREES WARMER IN THE
PLAINS LOOKS REASONABLE.

FOR THE EXTENDED (SAT THROUGH WED): LONG RANGE MODELS SUGGEST A
RIDGE LOCATED NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS ON FRIDAY...WITH THE RIDGE AXIS
SHIFTING TO THE EAST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS THROUGH TUEDAY. NOT A
LOT OF MOISTURE TO WORK WITH INTO TUESDAY...BUT DAYTIME HEATING AND
DESTABILIZATION MAY BE ENOUGH TO SPARK DAILY CONVECTION.  DURING
TUESDAY...STRONG TROUGH WORKING ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA WILL DROP AP
COLD FRONT INTO EASTERN COLO.  SO WILL KEEP CHANCES FOR TSTORMS
GOING THROUGH WED.

.PUB...NONE.

TLM

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 6:44 PM MST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
744 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0734 PM    BEULAH                    CO   2.50 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   PUEBLO

0740 PM    COLORADO CITY             CO   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   PUEBLO
Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:08 PM MST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
808 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0801 PM    15N WALSENBURG            CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   HUERFANO
Local storm report, Jun 20, 8:20 PM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
920 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0918 PM    5W RAMAH                  CO   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   EL PASO

0921 PM    RAMAH                     CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   EL PASO

0929 PM    CALHAN                    CO   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   EL PASO
Local storm report, Jun 20, 8:57 PM MST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
957 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0950 PM    1NW PENROSE               CO   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   FREMONT

0958 PM    6N YODER                  CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   EL PASO
Local storm report, Jun 20, 10:00 PM MST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1100 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2001

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1020 PM    7NE COLORADO SPRINGS      CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   EL PASO

1029 PM    BLACK FOREST              CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/20/01   EL PASO

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Event by event

4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Pueblo

When
June 21, 12:14 AM MST to 12:19 AM MST
Where
Pueblo County, 3 mi S of Colorado City
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
37.867, -104.867

Hail, Huerfano

When
June 21, 12:14 AM MST to 12:19 AM MST
Where
Huerfano County, 19 mi N of Walsenburg
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
37.900, -104.783

Hail, Las Animas

When
June 21, 5:09 PM MST to 5:14 PM MST
Where
Las Animas County, 3 mi S of Las Animas Co Arpt T
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
37.200, -104.333

Hail, Las Animas

When
June 21, 5:51 PM MST to 5:56 PM MST
Where
Las Animas County, Trinchera
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
37.050, -104.033

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

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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: 5250924, 5250925, 5250926, 5250927.