Hail, Bent
- When
- August 23, 2:25 AM MST to 2:30 AM MST
- Where
- Bent County, 3 mi SE of Mc Clave
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.100, -102.817
Hail in Colorado, August 23, 2002
3 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
- 3
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 Aug 23, 2:10 AM MST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 2:10 AM MST, 15 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 310 AM MDT FRI AUG 23 2002 MAIN CONCERN IS PRECIP CHANCES. THE PERSISTENT UPPER LOW WILL REMAIN OVER THE PACIFIC NW TODAY WITH AN UPPER RIDGE CENTERED NEAR THE NM/AZ/MEX BORDER AREA. NOT MUCH FOR UPPER DYNAMICS EXPECTED TODAY OVER THE FORECAST AREA...BUT SUSPECT THAT LINGERING MOISTURE AND DAYTIME HEATING AND LEFT OVER BOUNDARIES ON THE EASTERN PLAINS WILL RESULT IN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TODAY. THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TO AFFECT THE AREA MOVES IN THIS EVENING AND CONTINUES AFFECTING THE AREA INTO MIDDAY SATURDAY. WILL NOT PUT ANY TIMERS ON PRECIP TONIGHT. THE BEST MOISTURE TONIGHT WILL BE OVER EASTERN AREAS AND THIS IS WHERE I WILL HAVE THE HIGHEST POPS...AND WILL HAVE ISOLATED POPS OVER WESTERN AREAS WHERE IT APPEARS TO BE A BIT DRIER. AS FOR TEMPS TODAY...MODELS ARE SHOWING A LITTLE WARMING AT 700MB AND BELOW SO WILL GENERALLY GO A LITTLE WARMER THAN YESTERDAY AND NEAR GUIDANCE. UNSETTLED WX CONTINUES SAT WITH ONE SHORTWAVE MOVING EAST AFTER MIDDAY AND POSSIBLY ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE MOVING IN FROM THE WEST LATER IN THE DAY...BUT BY AFTERNOON IT LOOKS FAIRLY DRY OVER WESTERN AREAS AND WILL KEEP THE FORECAST DRY. LOOKS LIKE SOME COOLER AIR WILL BRUSH THE FAR EASTERN ZONES ON SATURDAY...BUT IT MAY NOT MAKE IT VERY FAR WEST. THUS WILL GO WITH COOLER TEMPS FAR EASTERN PLAINS AND WILL NOT COOL TEMPS OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE PLAINS...AND WILL KEEP TEMPS OVER THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA ABOUT THE SAME AS TODAY. SUNDAY THE UPPER LOW OVER THE PACIFIC NW WEAKENS WITH A CHUNK OF IT MOVING INTO MT. ETA AND AVN ARE IN BETTER AGREEMENT TODAY FOR SUNDAYS WX...WITH THE AVN COMING AROUND THE ETA SOLUTION...BUILDING THE UPPER RIDGE OVER CO. DRY FORECAST FOR THE WEST STILL LOOKS GOOD...AND AM RELUCTANT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE DRY FORECAST FOR THE EAST AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER THE AVN IS HINTING AT SOME LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ALONG THE KS BORDER SUNDAY AND UPSLOPE ON THE EASTERN PLAINS. THE RIDGE OVER THE AREA GETS FLATTENED SOMEWHAT ON MONDAY BY AN UPPER LOW CENTERED OVER THE SASK/ND/MT BORDER AREA WITH A TROUGH EXTENDING TO CENTRAL CA. LITTLE CHANGE IN THE PATTERN IS EXPECTED TUESDAY. PROBABLY ENOUGH MOISTURE ACROSS THE AREA FOR SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ALL AREAS. WED UPPER TROUGH MOVES INTO THE PLAINS STATES WITH THE RIDGE BUILDING A LITTLE OVER CO AND A FRONT MOVING INTO THE EASTERN CO PLAINS. THE UPPER RIDGE THEN REMAINS OVER THE AREA THU. WED LOOKS LIKE THE BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIP ON THE EASTERN PLAINS IN THE PERIOD MON THROUGH THU. OVER WESTERN AREAS IT SHOULD BE RELATIVELY DRY BUT SLIGHT CHANCES FOR PRECIP EACH DAY CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .PUB...NONE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, El Paso
- When
- August 23, 7:25 PM MST to 7:30 PM MST
- Where
- El Paso County, 6 mi SW of Security
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.650, -104.783
Hail, El Paso
- When
- August 23, 7:53 PM MST
- Where
- El Paso County, 4 mi SE of Colorado Spgs
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.800, -104.767
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
- Lightning Strike in Missouri, August 23, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 23, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, August 23, 2002
- Tornado in Indiana, August 23, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, August 23, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Michigan, August 23, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 23 to 24, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, August 23, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 23, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Indiana, August 23, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 23, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 23, 2002
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, August 2002
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: 5312553, 5312554, 5312555.