Hail, Yuma
- When
- September 16, 9:25 PM MST
- Where
- Yuma County, 20 mi S of Yuma
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 39.833, -102.717
Hail up to 1 inch deep along Highway 59.
Hail in Colorado, September 16, 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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 16, 6:20 PM MST, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 6:20 PM MST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 720 PM MDT SUN SEP 16 2001 HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REMOVE THUNDERSTORMS IN MOST LOCATIONS. ISOLATED SHOWERS ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN THE FAR WEST WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE FAR SOUTH ZONES AS STORMS MOVE EAST OUT OF EASTERN COLORADO. AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST...THEY ARE MOVING INTO A LESS FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT AND ARE DIMINISHING. .GLD...NONE LOCKHART
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:25 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
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, September 16, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, September 16, 2001
- Wildfire in California, September 16, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kansas, September 16, 2001
- Rip Current in California, September 16 to 17, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, September 16 to 17, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, September 16, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, September 16, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, September 16, 2001
- Flood in Hawaii, September 16, 2001
- Waterspout in Puerto Rico, September 16, 2001
- Tornado in Arizona, September 16, 2001
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, September 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: 5268443.