Hail, Kiowa
- When
- July 28, 5:30 PM MST to 5:35 PM MST
- Where
- Kiowa County, 10 mi S of Sheridan Lake
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.317, -102.283
Hail in Colorado, July 28, 2002
2 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
- 2
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 Jul 28, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST COLORADO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO COLORADO 300 PM MDT SUN JUL 28 2002 EXTENT OF PRECIP TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT THE CONCERN. CURRENTLY...ISOLATED HIGH BASED STORMS MOVING ACROSS THE MTNS AND ADJACENT PLAINS...QUICK LOOK OUT THE WINDOW HERE IN PUEBLO SUGGESTS MORE VIRGA THAN RAIN. COLD FRONT IS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS...WITH GREATER INSTABILITY OVER THE FAR SOUTHEAST CORNER AND AN ISOLATED STRONG TSRA SOUTH OF KSPD. TONIGHT...WILL MAINTAIN ISOLATED TSRA MOST ZONES AT LEAST INTO THE EVENING...EXPECTING ACTIVITY TO DIE QUICKLY OVER THE MTNS AND WEST WITH WEAK FORCING AND LIMITED MOISTURE. STORMS MIGHT HANG ON A LITTLE LONGER OVER THE PLAINS...ESPECIALLY FAR SE AS DEEPER MOISTURE ADVECTS WWRD BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. MONDAY...THOUGH MODELS SHOW LITTLE IN THE WAY OF PRECIP...THEY DO PROG HIGH CAPES (1000-2000 J/KG) OVER THE PLAINS BY AFTERNOON. WITH WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW...STILL SUSPECT ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE EASTERN MTNS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO SUSTAIN THEMSELVES AS THEY MOVE INTO THE UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE PLAINS. FARTHER WEST...WAS TEMPTED TO REMOVE PRECIP ENTIRELY...BUT SINCE ISOLATED TSRA HAVE FORMED THIS AFTERNOON...SUSPECT WELL SEE A REPEAT ON MON... THOUGH AS AIRMASS DRIES SLIGHTLY...DOUBT WELL SEE ANY MEASURABLE PRECIP. MAX TEMPS COOL A MINOR AMOUNT OVER THE EAST...WITH LITTLE CHANGE OUT WEST. TUE-WED...RATHER GENERIC SUMMERTIME FORECAST WILL CONTINUE...WITH HOT DAYS AND SLIGHT CHANCES FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION. MODELS DONT SHOW MUCH IN THE WAY OF INCREASING MOISTURE...SO SPARSE COVERAGE OF MOSTLY DRY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE RULE. MAX TEMPS CLIMB BACK TO SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL READINGS...WITH MID AND UPPER 90S RETURNING TO THE LOWER ARK VALLEY. THU-SUN...GFS TRIES TO DRAG A STRONGER COLD FRONT INTO NERN CO THURSDAY MORNING...THEN THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EAST BY FRIDAY...WHILE 12Z AVN IS NOW A DAY SLOWER. BOTH RUNS HINT AT A TEMPORARY EASTWARD MIGRATION OF THE UPPER RIDGE...THOUGH RUN TO RUN TREND HAS BEEN NOTICEABLY LESS AGGRESSIVE WITH THE EASTWARD MOTION. IF MODELS ARE RIGHT...THIS WOULD APPEAR TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR DEEPER MOISTURE TO FLOW NORTHWARD INTO THE AREA OVER THE WEEKEND....WITH MOIST SERLY UPSLOPE OVER THE PLAINS AS WELL. HAVE SEEN THIS PATTERN IN MODEL LAND A FEW TIMES THIS SUMMER...BUT IT HAS BEEN MOSTLY ABSENT HERE IN THE REAL WORLD. CURRENT GRIDS WITH JUST SLIGHT CHANCES WILL BE FINE FOR NOW. .PUB...NONE. PETERSEN
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:29 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Prowers
- When
- July 28, 5:44 PM MST to 5:49 PM MST
- Where
- Prowers County, 8 mi N of Granada
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.183, -102.317
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
- Heat in Maryland, July 28 to 29, 2002
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 28 to 30, 2002
- Heat in Maryland, July 28 to 30, 2002
- Tornado in New York, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 28, 2002
- Hail in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Wind in New York, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, July 28, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 28, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, July 28, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 28, 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: 5309354, 5309355.