10 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Jul 10, 1:30 AM MST, 11 hours 15 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 230 AM MDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...PRECIP CHANCES TODAY AND THURSDAY THE CONCERN... CURRENTLY...EVENING CONVECTION HAS DIED OUT ACROSS THE AREA...THOUGH MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUD COVER REMAINS. SFC OBS AND MSAS ANALYSIS SUGGEST SECONDARY COOL SURGE IS STILL ALONG/NORTH OF THE ARK RIVER VALLEY...WITH NARROW TONGUE OF 60 DEGF DEW POINTS INTO NERN CO. TODAY/TONIGHT...COOL SURGE SWEEPS THROUGH THE ERN PLAINS EARLY IN THE DAY...WITH WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW IN ITS WAKE. ON THE POSITIVE SIDE FOR CONVECTION...MESOETA HAS 2000 J/KG BULLSEYE OF CAPE JUST SOUTH OF THE PALMER DIVIDE WITH 1000-1500 J/KG VALUES COVERING THE REMAINDER OF THE SERN PLAINS. NEGATIVE FACTORS FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION INCLUDE LACK OF ANY UPPER LEVEL FEATURE TO ENHANCE ACTIVITY AND N-NERLY STEERING CURRENTS WHICH MAY TEND TO KEEP ANY ACTIVITY NEAR THE ERN MTNS. FARTHER WEST...LITTLE CHANGE NOTED...WITH ENOUGH MOISTURE RECYCLING UNDER THE UPPER HIGH TO CONTINUE THE THREAT OF ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCT -TSRA. CURRENT ZONES WITH 20-30 POPS ALL AREAS LOOK JUST FINE AND WONT CHANGE. SHOULD SEE MAX TEMPS ROUGHLY 10 DEGF COOLER THAN TUES READINGS. THURSDAY...UPPER HIGH BEGINS TO STRENGTHEN AS SFC FRONT WASHES OUT TO THE SOUTH. STILL ENOUGH MOISTURE AND WEAK UPSLOPE OVER THE EAST TO CONTINUE THE SLIGHT CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING TSRA... THOUGH COVERAGE AND INTENSITY WILL BE LESSENING. ACTIVITY FARTHER WEST WILL ALSO DECREASE AS HEIGHTS BUILD AND MID-LEVELS WARM. LEANED TOWARD WARMER FWC MAXES. EXTENDED...UPPER HIGH BUILDING NWRD STILL LOOKS TO BE IN A FAIRLY UNFAVORABLE POSITION FOR CONVECTION THROUGH THE WEEKEND...AND WILL LET CURRENT DRY FCST CONTINUE. LATEST AVN/GFS SUGGESTS OLD UPPER LOW WILL SHEAR OUT TO THE EAST OF CO AND NOT PROVIDE MUCH IN THE WAY OF CONVECTION...THOUGH UPPER RIDGE APPEARS TO WEAKEN ENOUGH TO ALLOW SOME MOISTURE TO FILTER NORTHWARD EARLY NEXT WEEK. CURRENT SLIGHT CHANCES FOR -TSRA MONDAY AND TUESDAY LOOK FINE. .PUB...NONE. PETERSEN
COZ058>081-102000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1140 AM MDT WED JUL 10 2002 ...THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLORADO THROUGH 7 AM TOMORROW... ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR ONE OR TWO MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG THE I-25 CORRIDOR AND ADJACENT MOUNTAINS... AN UNSTABLE AND MOIST UPSLOPE PATTERN IS DEVELOPING ACROSS EASTERN COLORADO LATE THIS MORNING WITH SURFACE DEW POINTS IN THE 50S TO THE LOWER 60S NOTED FROM THE EASTERN SLOPES TO THE KANSAS BORDER. THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING LATE THIS MORNING OVER PORTIONS OF CHAFFEE AND TELLER COUNTIES WITH THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ONE OR TWO OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE HAIL TO AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER...AND WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS IN SOUTHERN COLORADO AND FIRE PERSONNEL IN THE BURN AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:59 UTC.
10 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain forced incident crews in the Hayman Fire Burn area to head for safe spots. Reports of water and debris washing across the roadways were noted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Colorado in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 2002
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: 5309294, 5307639, 5307646, 5307640, 5307641, 5307642, 5307643, 5307644, 5307645, 5307647, 5309292, 5309293.