Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- July 10, 8:50 PM MST to 8:56 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 2 mi W of Firstview
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.817, -102.567
Hail in Colorado, July 10, 2002
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 Jul 10, 7:20 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 7:20 PM MST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 820 PM MDT WED JUL 10 2002 EVERYTHING WAS BEHAVING ITSELF...UNTIL THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVED INTO THE AREA. RUC HAD A GREAT HANDLE ON THE TSRA ACTIVITY...CONFINING IT TO AREAS ALONG THE FRONT AND WITHIN THE 700 THTE-E AXIS. STRONGEST ACTIVITY WAS ALSO CONFINED WITHIN THE STRONGEST 700-500 OMEGA FIELDS. FORECAST WAS TO HAVE THE ACTIVITY OVER LINCOLN COUNTY MOVE SOUTH ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY WHICH ITS DOING BUT THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FIRED UP SOME STORMS OVER THE WESTERN PARTS OF KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF COLORADO. UPDATED AFTERNOON PACKAGE TO INCLUDE SOME STORMS THROUGH EVENING AND INCREASE THE CLOUDS DUE TO CIRRUS BLOWOFF. AS WAS THE CASE THIS MORNING...CIRRUS SHOULD THIN OUT TOWARD MORNING. .GLD...NONE. DDT
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:49 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
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, July 10, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 10, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 10, 2002
- Flash Flood in Iowa, July 10 to 11, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 10, 2002
- Blizzard in California, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 10, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 10, 2002
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 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: 5304308.