Name: Hail in Colorado, May 19, 2001
Start: 2001-05-19T05:15
End: 2001-05-19T05:15
Location: Colorado

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 May 19, 1:45 AM MST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 1:45 AM MST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER COLORADO
245 AM MDT SAT MAY 19 2001

SHORT TERM DISCUSSION:  UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS WILL SWING ACROSS
THE STATE TODAY.  BEST TIME FOR PCPN WILL BE IN THE MORNING.  MODELS
INDICATED SOME UPSLOPE AT OR BELOW H7 THIS MORNING AS WEAK SURGE
SLOWLY FILTERS INTO THE CWA.  WEAK H5-H3 QG ASCENT LINGERS INTO THE
EARLY AFTERNOON WE WELL WITH MARGINAL MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES OF
6-7C/KM.  ALL THESE INGREDIENTS APPEAR TO DECREASE OR DIMINISH
DURING THE AFTERNOON.  SO ASIDE FROM A FEW MINOR ADJUSTMENTS ...SEE
NO REASON CHANGE MUCH IN THE CURRENT FORECAST.  COOPER

LONG TERM DISCUSSION:  SYSTEM AFFECTING AREA TODAY WL MOVE EAST AND
SOUTH OF RGN BY THIS EVENING.  BEST CHC OF LINGERING SHOWERS EARLY
THIS EVENING WL BE OVR SRN AREAS OF CWA.  FOR SUN UPR LVL TROF WL
APPROACH RGN BY LATE AFTN INTO SUN EVENING ALONG WITH PASSAGE STG
CDFNT.  LATEST MESO-ETA SHOWS THIS FNT NR WY BORDER BY 21Z AND THEN
SWEEPS ACRS REST OF NERN CO BY 03Z.  BEFORE FNT ARRIVES SHOULD SEE
TEMPS WRM BACK INTO THE 70S OVR NERN CO DUE TO WLY LOW LVL LVL
COMPONENT.  AS FNT MOVES INTO RGN BY LATE AFTN GUSTY N TO NE WNDS WL
DEVELOP BEHIND FNT WITH A RAPID DROP IN TEMPS.  COULD SEE A FEW
TSTMS DVLP ALONG FNTL BNDRY BY LATE AFTN AS WELL.

BY SUN EVENING STG UPSLOPE FLOW WL EXIST FOR A BRIEF PD OF TIME
MAINLY FM 00Z-06Z.  MEANWHILE FLOW ALOFT WL BECOME MORE NWLY AS PTN
OF UPR LVL TROF SWINGS ACRS NRN CO.  GRIDDED FIELDS SHOW DECENT QG
ASCENT ALONG WITH NICE AREA OF POTENTIAL VORTICITY DOWN TO 500 MB.
SO SHOULD SEE INCR IN PCPN SUN EVENING ACRS NRN CO BEFORE ENDING BY
09Z.  MEANWHILE 700 MB TEMPS ARE FCST TO DROP TO -6 C BY 03Z SO
STILL CANT RULE OUT PCPN CHANGING TO SNOW OVR LOWER ELEVATIONS
BEFORE ENDING BY 09Z.  IN THE MTNS AND FOOTHILLS EXPECT SOME SNOW AS
WELL WITH SOME ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE.

ON MON SYSTEM WL BE WELL SE OF AREA WITH STG SUSBSIDENCE OVR NRN
CO.  TEMPS WL BE COOLER HOWEVER WITH PLENTY OF SUN DONT EXPECT
READINGS TO BE MORE THAN 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.  FOR THE
REST OF THE WEEK SHOULD SEE MAINLY DRY WX WITH A GRADUALLY WARMING
TREND.   KLEYLA

.DEN...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 4:45 AM MST, 30 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
545 AM MDT SAT MAY 19 2001

...PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT FOR MAY 19 2001...

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

0500 PM    7 NW PUNKIN CENTER        CO   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/19/01   ELBERT

RAY

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:14 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Lincoln

When: May 19, 5:15 AM MST
Where: Lincoln County, Karval
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.733, -103.533

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

Every storm in Colorado in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Colorado, May 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: 5250133.