Hail, Lincoln
- When
- June 7, 3:58 PM MST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 6 mi W of Hugo
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.133, -103.583
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, June 7, 2001
6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 10
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 7, 12:15 PM MST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 12:15 PM MST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO 115 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001 SHORT TERM DISCUSSION: STILL LOOKING GOOD FOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK OVER NERN CO THROUGH THIS EVENING. SURFACE DEWPOINTS HOLDING IN THE MID 50S...WITH LOWER 60 DEWPOINTS ACROSS FAR NERN CO. VISIBILE SAT PICS SHOWING BOUNDARY DRAPPED EAST OF ITR TO AKO AND UP THROUGH FT MORGAN. LAPS SHOWING THETA-E AXIS ALINGED WITH THIS BOUNDARY WITH CAPES UP TO 3000J/KG. STORMS GOING ALREADY OVER THE PALMER DIVIDE WITH MORE HEATING THERE...BUT STILL SUNSHINE GOING ON OVER THE URBAN COORIDOR TO FIRE STORMS WITH ADDITIONAL HEATING AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. WILL MENTION SEVERE IN ERN CO ZONES THIS EVENING. EXPECT MUCH OF THE PLAINS TO HAVE RETURN OF STRATUS/FOG LATER TNT WITH ALL THE LINGERING MSTR LEFT OVER FROM STORMS. LOOKS ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS FOR FRI AFTN...BUT A LITTLE LESS NUMEROUS WITH A LITTLE DRIER AIR FROM THE WEST AND JET STREAK MOVES OFF. SHEAR PROFILE IS SIMIALR TO TDAY SO STILL A SHOT AT SOME SEVERE STORMS FRI AFTN AS WELL. LONG TERM DISCUSSION: UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDS IN AND GRADUALLY SHIFTS EAST OF STATE THRU WEEKEND PRD WHICH BRINGS IN VERY DRY AIR IN THE MID LEVELS WITH SW FLOW. CANT SEE ANY STORMS DURING THE WEEKEND PRD. LATEST MRF STILL SHOWING NEXT FRONT TO COME DOWN ON TUE...WHICH IS SHOWN SOME CONSISTENCY IN LAST FEW RUNS. A RETURN TO AFTERNOON STORMS AND COOLER WX TUE-THU LOOKS IN ORDER. WILL SPLIT UP EXTENDED FCST A LITTLE TO SHOW THESE CHANGES. ENTREKIN .DEN...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:00 PM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
COZ030>051-072200- SIGNIFICANT WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 200 PM MDT THU JUN 7 2001 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COLORADO COUNTIES ADAMS ARAPAHOE BOULDER CLEAR CREEK DENVER DOUGLAS ELBERT GILPIN GRAND JACKSON JEFFERSON LARIMER LINCOLN LOGAN MORGAN PARK PHILLIPS SEDGWICK SUMMIT WASHINGTON WELD ...SPOTTERS ALREADY ACTIVATED IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... SYNOPSIS...SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER DOUGLAS AND WESTERN ELBERT COUNTIES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THROUGH THE EVENING...AND SOME OF THESE ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. SUFFICIENT WIND SHEAR EXISTS IN THE ATMOSPHERE FOR SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALTHOUGH THE SURFACE WIND FLOW IS SOMEWHAT WEAK... A FEW TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY ALONG CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES. MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS WILL REMAIN DRY TODAY...EXCEPT FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS AND PARK COUNTY. NOAA WEATHER RADIO IS OFF THE AIR DUE TO A COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE. FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION MONITOR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA OR THE DENVER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOME PAGE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/DEN. CLICK ON THE SEVERE WEATHER PAGE LINK. BARJENBRUCH
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Elbert
- When
- June 7, 4:01 PM MST
- Where
- Elbert County, 3 mi N of Kutch
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.950, -103.867
Hail, Washington
- When
- June 7, 4:40 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 15 mi W of Akron
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 40.167, -103.483
Large hail broke a windshield.
Tornado, Washington
- When
- June 7, 4:40 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 15 mi W of Akron
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 40.167, -103.483
A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- June 7, 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 12 mi NW of Karval
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.850, -103.683
A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
Hail, Adams
- When
- June 7, 5:01 PM MST
- Where
- Adams County, Westminster
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 39.833, -105.033
Tornado, Washington
- When
- June 7, 5:05 PM MST to 5:08 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 10 mi W of Elba
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- STORM CHASER
- Coordinates
- 39.917, -103.367
A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
Hail, Washington
- When
- June 7, 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 9 mi SW of Akron
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.067, -103.317
Thunderstorm Wind, Lincoln
- When
- June 7, 7:35 PM MST
- Where
- Lincoln County, 4 mi NE of Karval
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.767, -103.483
Strong thunderstorm winds snapped tree limbs, 8 inches in diameter.
Hail, Weld
- When
- June 7, 7:40 PM MST
- Where
- Weld County, 8 mi N of New Raymer
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.650, -103.783
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.
- 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
- Lightning Strikes in Mississippi, June 7, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 7, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Colorado, June 7, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 7 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Maryland, June 7, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 7, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 7 to 8, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 7, 2001
- Rip Current in Florida, June 7, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 7, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, June 7, 2001
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Colorado, 2001Warnings 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: 5252380, 5252381, 5252382, 5252383, 5252469, 5252470, 5252471, 5252472, 5252473, 5252474.