Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- August 25, 11:05 AM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 12 mi S of Arapahoe
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 38.683, -102.167
Hail in Colorado, August 25, 2006
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 25, 1:00 AM MST, 10 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 1:00 AM MST, 10 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 200 AM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006 .DISCUSSION...MID/UPPER RIDGE REMAINS PLANTED ACROSS TEXAS WITH ONE SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND ANOTHER TROUGH BUILDING INTO THE GREAT BASIN AREA. A COLD FRONT WAS MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTH ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS AND SHOULD MOVE SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA PRIOR TO SUNRISE. TODAY/TONIGHT...320K ISENTROPIC LIFT/H7 WAA WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AS SFC BOUNDARY SETTLES SOUTH ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND A SHORT WAVE TROUGH LIFTS NORTHEAST AROUND H5 RIDGE OVER MID LEVEL BAROCLINIC ZONE LOCATED ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. THIS ADDS HIGH CONFIDENCE IN MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES WITH LIMITED INSOLATION/LOW LEVEL CAA IN POST FRONTAL UPSLOPE REGIME. HIGHS WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN THE 70S ACROSS MUCH OF THE WESTERN ZONES. THE DIFFICULTY FOR TODAY WILL BE PRECIPITATION COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON. THE AXIS OF SFC BASED INSTABILITY WILL BE SHUNTED SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA ALONG/IMMEDIATELY BEHIND SURGING COLD FRONT. RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION TO H3 JET/H7-H3 DIV Q SUPPORT POST-FRONTAL PRECIPITATION AND INCREASED POPS BY LATE AFTERNOON CARRYING A LIKELY MENTION ACROSS THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST ZONES THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS BEFORE THE FOCUS SHIFTS EAST/SOUTHEAST AWAY FROM THE AREA. SATURDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT...SUBSIDENCE IS EXPECTED EARLY SATURDAY BEFORE LARGE SCALE ASCENT INCREASES ACROSS THE WESTERN ZONES LATE IN THE PERIOD AS POSITIVELY TILTED H5 TROUGH DEVELOPS EASTWARD INTO THE ROCKIES. THEREFORE ADJUSTED POPS BY LOWERING THEM IN THE MORNING HOURS AND REINTRODUCING THEM ACROSS THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA LATE IN THE PERIOD AND CONTINUING A CHANCE MENTION THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. ANOTHER UNSEASONABLY COOL DAY IS EXPECTED WITH HIGHS IN THE 70S ACROSS THE WEST AND AROUND 80 IN THE EAST. SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT...THE TROUGH OVER THE ROCKIES WILL TRANSLATE EASTWARD INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS BRINGING INCREASING CHANCES FOR DEEP MOIST CONVECTION DURING BOTH PERIODS. UNSEASONABLY COOL CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST WITH LIMITED INSOLATION/WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION POSSIBLE THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. DAYS 4 THROUGH 7...NO CHANGES. && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. && MCGUIRE
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 9:09 AM MST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1009 AM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-261200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1109 AM CDT FRI AUG 25 2006 /1009 AM MDT FRI AUG 25 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE IN NORTHEAST COLORADO. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY...HOWEVER AT THIS TIME STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. MCGUIRE/JDK
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:06 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
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 25, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, August 25, 2006
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, August 25 to 26, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2006
- Flash Flood and Flood in Illinois, August 25 to 26, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 25, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, August 25, 2006
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 25, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, August 25, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 25, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 25, 2006
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 25, 2006
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, August 2006
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: 5533014.