Hail, Elbert
- When
- May 24, 1:00 PM MST
- Where
- Elbert County, 4 mi S of Kiowa
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.300, -104.467
Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 24, 2005
10 hail, 4 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 15
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.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 9:43 AM MST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1043 AM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005 COZ030>051-251200- JACKSON COUNTY BELOW 9000 FEET-WEST JACKSON AND WEST GRAND COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-GRAND AND SUMMIT COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/ NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/ SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET-JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY-LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY-BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/ EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET-NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES- NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- 1043 AM MDT TUE MAY 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE URBAN CORRIDOR AND NORTHEASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO. ADEQUATE MOISTURE...SHEAR AND INSTABILITY WILL BE PRESENT FOR POSSIBLE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WHICH MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE STORMS GENERATING ALONG THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS...A BAND OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER AND NEAR THE NORTHERN BORDER OF COLORADO AT MIDDAY WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR FURTHER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING. GARD/ENTREKIN
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:58 UTC.
Event by event
10 hail, 4 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Weld
- When
- May 24, 1:31 PM MST
- Where
- Weld County, Stoneham
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.600, -103.650
A small tornado touched down but did no damage.
Hail, Logan
- When
- May 24, 1:40 PM MST
- Where
- Logan County, 6 mi NW of Willard
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.617, -103.567
Hail, Weld
- When
- May 24, 1:44 PM MST
- Where
- Weld County, 1 mi SW of Stoneham
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.583, -103.667
Thunderstorm Wind, Morgan
- When
- May 24, 1:50 PM MST
- Where
- Morgan County, 1 mi NW of Ft Morgan
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 40.267, -103.817
Tornado, Morgan
- When
- May 24, 1:59 PM MST
- Where
- Morgan County, 5 mi N of Snyder
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.383, -103.583
A small tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
Tornado, Logan
- When
- May 24, 2:07 PM MST
- Where
- Logan County, 6 mi WNW of Sterling
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.667, -103.300
A small tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
Hail, Washington
- When
- May 24, 2:16 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 18 mi NE of Akron
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.350, -102.967
Tornado, Washington
- When
- May 24, 2:35 PM MST to 2:40 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 8 mi W of Akron
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 40.167, -103.350
A small tornado touched down briefly but did no damage.
Hail, Washington
- When
- May 24, 2:42 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 8 mi NW of Akron
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.250, -103.300
Hail, Washington
- When
- May 24, 2:50 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 17 mi NE of Otis
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.317, -102.717
Hail, Washington
- When
- May 24, 2:54 PM MST
- Where
- Washington County, 10 mi NNE of Akron
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 40.300, -103.133
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- May 24, 4:24 PM MST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Arvada
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.800, -105.083
Hail, Denver
- When
- May 24, 4:32 PM MST
- Where
- Denver County, Denver
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.733, -104.933
Hail, Denver
- When
- May 24, 4:47 PM MST
- Where
- Denver County, Denver
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.733, -104.933
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, May 24, 2005
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- Flash Flood and Hail in Mississippi, May 24, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 24, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Debris Flows in Puerto Rico, May 24, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 24, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Florida, May 24, 2005
- Flash Flood and Hail in Colorado, May 24 to 25, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 24 to 25, 2005
- Hail in North Carolina, May 24, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Puerto Rico, May 24, 2005
- Hail in Colorado, May 24, 2005
More
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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: 5452826, 5452827, 5452825, 5452822, 5452821, 5452820, 5452819, 5452824, 5452818, 5452817, 5452823, 5452816, 5452738, 5452737, 5452736.