Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- August 19, 1:33 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, Arapahoe
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.850, -102.167
Hail in Colorado, August 19, 2005
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 Aug 19, 11:08 AM MST, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 11:08 AM MST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1208 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 .UPDATE...ZONES HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO BASED ON LATEST OBSERVATION AND RADAR TRENDS. SCATTERED CONVECTION DEVELOPED ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING THANKS TO INTERACTION BETWEEN NEARBY UPPER JET AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IN SOUTHWEST UPPER FLOW MOVING THROUGH REGION. ADJUSTED POPS UP A BIT OVER NORTHEAST AND EASTERN ZONES DUE TO BEST MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY THERE FOR THIS AFTERNOON. KEPT SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION ELSEWHERE. OTHER CONCERN IS HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY DUE TO MORE CLOUDINESS MOVING THROUGH. LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS STILL LOTS MORE DENSE CLOUDINESS TO MOVE NORTHEAST OVER MY EASTERN ZONES. DO NOT THINK HIGH TEMPERATURES AT HILL CITY TODAY TO RISE AS HIGH AS PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. HAVE THUS LOWERED HIGH TEMPERATURES INTO LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S OUT EAST. ALSO TWEAKED WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION ACROSS THE AREA AS MULTIPLE SURFACE BOUNDARIES ALSO EXIST AFFECTING SURFACE WINDS. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && LAMMERS
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 9:57 AM MST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1057 AM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-201200- CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-DECATUR-DUNDY-GOVE-GRAHAM-GREELEY-HITCHCOCK- KIT CARSON-LOGAN-NORTON-RAWLINS-RED WILLOW-SHERIDAN-SHERMAN-THOMAS- WALLACE-WICHITA-YUMA- 1057 AM MDT (1157 AM CDT) FRI AUG 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS...EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE NORTH OF A LINE FROM FLAGLER COLORADO TO HILL CITY KANSAS. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF THE TRI-STATE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON ALONG A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF A HAIGLER TO GOODLAND TO TRIBUNE LINE. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING APPEARS TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAYBE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. LAMMERS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 1:30 PM MST, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 230 PM MDT FRI AUG 19 2005 KSZ004-016-200300- GRAHAM-NORTON- 330 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 736 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 736 UNTIL 10 PM CDT. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...NORTON AND GRAHAM. HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BULLER
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 70 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:35 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, August 19, 2005
- Heat in Illinois, August 19, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kansas, August 19, 2005
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, August 19, 2005
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 19, 2005
- Heat in Kentucky, August 19 to 20, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New Mexico, August 19, 2005
- Heat in Illinois, August 19 to 20, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 19, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 19, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain in Illinois, August 19, 2005
- Heat in Missouri, August 19 to 20, 2005
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, August 2005
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: 5465075.