Colorado, 2001

Hail in Colorado, June 4, 2001

June 4, 2001 · NWS BOU · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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 Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 4, 4:45 PM MST, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 4:45 PM MST, 5 hours 22 minutes before
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO
545 PM MDT MON JUN 4 2001

...UPDATE TO ACCOUNT FOR 1ST PERIOD CHANGES...

SHORT TERM DISCUSSION:  NO DOUBT MAIN STORM FRONT HAS MOVED WELL
E OF URBAN CORRIDOR AND WAS NOW PUSHING THROUGH ELBERT...NRN
LINCOLN...WASHINGTON AND ERN LOGAN CTYS.  YET RUC AND MM5 MODELS
SHOW ELEVATED SB CAPES BEHIND STORM FRONT OVR THE MONUMENT RIDGE
AND OVR SRN PORTIONS OF THE URBAN CORRIDOR AT LEAST THROUGH
03Z THIS EVE.  GRANTED...BULK OF UPR LVL FORCING AND MOISTURE NOW
E OF AREA...WK UPSLOPE FLOW AND ANOTHER COUPLE OF HRS OF SOLAR
HEATING SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF LGT SHWRS/
T-SHWRS THIS EVE.  HWVR...THREAT OF SVR LOOKS QUITE LOW XCPT IN
FAR ERN ZNS...SUCH AS SRN WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN CTYS...AND IN
THOSE CTYS E OF OUR CWFA.  SO WILL UPDATE ZNS TO REFLECT THESE
CHANGES.  SVR T-STORM WATCH FOR SERN PORTIONS OF CWFA WL LIKELY
BE DROPPED NEXT HR OR SO ONCE T-STORM FRONT PUSHES OUT OF CWFA.
BAKER

.DEN...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 5:51 PM MST, 4 hours 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
651 PM MDT MON JUN 04 2001

...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FOR JUNE 04 2001...

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

0314 PM    16 N BENNETT              CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   ADAMS

0332 PM    1 S PROSPECT VALLEY       CO   1.0 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   ADAMS

0351 PM    7 W LAST CHAiNCE           CO   1.0 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   ADAMS

BENTON
Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:17 PM MST, 1 hour 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
917 PM MDT MON JUN 04 2001

...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FOR JUNE 04 2001...

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

0314 PM    16 N BENNETT              CO   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   ADAMS

0332 PM    1 S PROSPECT VALLEY       CO   1.0 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   ADAMS

0351 PM    7 W LAST CHAkNCE           CO   1.0 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   ADAMS

0907 PM    10 SW FORDER              CO   1.0 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   LINCOLN

BENTON

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:06 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lincoln

When
June 4, 10:07 PM MST
Where
Lincoln County, 11 mi NW of Karval
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
38.850, -103.683

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

More

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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: 5252379.