Hail, Logan
- When
- June 19, 7:49 PM MST
- Where
- Logan County, 0.69 mi N of Crook
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 40.860, -102.800
Hail in Colorado, June 19, 2008
Severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail in parts of Arapahoe and Logan Counties.
Where it happened
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- 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 happened
The episode as NWS BOU wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorm produced penny size hail in parts of Arapahoe and Logan Counties.
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, Jun 19, 10:09 AM MST, 9 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1109 AM MDT THU JUN 19 2008 COZ030>051-201200- 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- 1109 AM MDT THU JUN 19 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AFTER A FEW EARLY MORNING THUNDERSTORMS...CLEARING SKIES WILL ALLOW STRONG SOLAR HEATING TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE SUFFICIENTLY TO PRODUCE AT LEAST ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER AND NEAR THE FRONT RANGE AND PALMER DIVIDE AFTER 3 PM TODAY. NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT SHOULD CARRY MOST OF THESE STORMS OVER AREAS MAINLY SOUTH AND WEST OF DENVER. UPSLOPING NORTHEAST WINDS...PRODUCED BY POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH DAKOTA AND NEBRASKA LATE LAST NIGHT...WILL ALSO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL MOISTURE FOR THIS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER TODAY. WHEREAS THIS SAME NORTHEAST FLOW MAY ALSO STABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE ON THE PLAINS...THEREBY HINDERING THUNDERSTORM FORMATION OUT THERE. WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH...LIGHTNING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER AND NEAR THE FRONT RANGE RANGE AND PALMER DIVIDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP MAY BE SEVERE ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. BAKER/ENTREKIN
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 171 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:50 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Arapahoe
- When
- June 19, 8:01 PM MST
- Where
- Arapahoe County, 3.19 mi W of (Bkf)buckley Air Force Base
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 39.700, -104.810
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
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- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, June 19, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Missouri, June 19 to 20, 2008
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 19, 2008
- Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 2008
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 19 to 20, 2008
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, June 19, 2008
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 19, 2008
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, June 19, 2008
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 19, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 19, 2008
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, June 2008
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: 101911, 101912.