Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- July 6, 7:12 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 6.22 mi N of Wild Horse
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- COOP Observer
- Coordinates
- 38.910, -103.000
Hail in Colorado, July 6, 2009
A line of thunderstorms moved across eastern Colorado into western Kansas and southwest Nebraska during the evening, producing heavy rainfall and a few reports of quarter size hail.
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 happened
The episode as NWS GLD wrote it up.
A line of thunderstorms moved across eastern Colorado into western Kansas and southwest Nebraska during the evening, producing heavy rainfall and a few reports of quarter size hail.
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 Jul 6, 6:05 PM MST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 6:05 PM MST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 705 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 .UPDATE... 659 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 FORECAST IS PRETTY MUCH ON TRACK. PER LATEST OBSERVATIONAL/MODEL DATA...WILL BE EXPANDING HIGHER POPS A LITTLE FURTHER EAST ALONG WITH MENTION OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME SEVERE. OTHERWISE...JUST TWEEKED TEMPERATURES...DEWPOINTS AND SKY COVER. BULLER && .DISCUSSION... 101 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 MID/UPR-LVL RIDGING WILL DOMINATE THE PICTURE THROUGH THE FCST PERIOD, MAKING THIS PACKAGE A STRAIGHT FWD FCST. AS A RESULT, THE HOTTEST DAYTIME TEMPS THUS FAR OF THE SEASON WILL OCCUR THIS WEEK. THERE WILL BE SEVERAL MINOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR PRECIP DURING THIS TIME FRAME BUT NOTHING WIDESPREAD. THE FIRST BEING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FAR WRN ZONES, PROMOTED BY DIFFERENTIAL SFC HEATING/TERRAIN INDUCED CI. STORM MOTIONS WOULD SUGGEST THE ACTIVITY WILL HAVE A TOUGH TIME MOVING FAR INTO WRN KS BEFORE DISSIPATING THIS EVENING. PWATS ARE LOWER THAN YESTERDAY BUT SLOW MOVING TSRA OVER AREAS THAT RECEIVED 1.5+ INCHES OF RNFL LAST EVENING COULD BE FLASHY COME THIS EVENING. MORE SCATTERED ACTIVITY IS PROGGGED ACROSS THE ERN HALF OF THE CWA TOMORROW AFTERNOON BUT THAT SHOULD BE RATHER LIMITED IF IT DOES MATERIALIZE GIVEN WEAK UV SUPPORT AND WARMING MID-LVL TEMPS. A PAC FRONT BEHIND THE NEXT STOUT NRN PLAINS S/WV TROF IS PROGGED BY THE GFS, AND TO A LESSER DEGREE THE EC, TO MOVE INTO THE NRN CWA ON THR. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD KNOCK TEMPS DOWN A FRAZ AND MAY INDUCE PRECIP CHANCES ALONG AND NORTH OF IT. THE FRONT THEN HANGS AROUND/REINFORCED ON SAT AND SUN. FOR NOW KEPT POPS DURING THIS TIME AND LEFT THE REST OF THE PERIODS DRY. WARMED HPC GRIDS ON DAYS 6 AND 7 05 && .AVIATION... 527 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 FOR THE 00Z TAFS... THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OFF THE FRONT RANGE OF COLORADO & WYOMING WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SE AND NEAR KGLD AROUND 02Z. IF A THUNDERSTORM MAKES ITS WAY DIRECTLY OVER KGLD...COULD SEE MVFR/IFR WITH REDUCED VISBYS UNDER HEAVY RAIN. A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO MAY BRUSH PAST THE KMCK TERMINAL BUT DONT EXPECT ANYTHING BUT VFR CONDITIONS. TUESDAY WILL BRING LESS CLOUDS AND BREEZY SOUTHERLY WINDS. KJ && .GLD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KS...NONE. NE...NONE. CO...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 9:35 AM MST, 9 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1035 AM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-071200- YUMA-KIT CARSON-CHEYENNE CO-CHEYENNE KS-RAWLINS-DECATUR-NORTON- SHERMAN-THOMAS-SHERIDAN-GRAHAM-WALLACE-LOGAN-GOVE-GREELEY-WICHITA- DUNDY-HITCHCOCK-RED WILLOW- 1035 AM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 /1135 AM CDT MON JUL 6 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EAST CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON...SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHEAST AND REACHING A BENKELMAN NEBRASKA TO GOODLAND AND LEOTI KANSAS LINE BY EARLY EVENING. A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. WITH STORM MOTIONS TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE. AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL SUNDAY EVENING MAY EXPERIENCE SOME FLASH FLOODING SHOULD MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP NEAR THE COLORADO STATE LINE TUESDAY AFTERNOON...HOWEVER COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE LIMITED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:28 PM MST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 628 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 COZ090-091-070100- KIT CARSON COUNTY-YUMA COUNTY- 628 PM MDT MON JUL 6 2009 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR KIT CARSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO AND YUMA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST COLORADO... AT 626 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM AKRON SOUTH TO LAST CHANCE...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN KIT CARSON AND YUMA COUNTIES...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED IF THE STORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA. BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS. 024
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:11 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Cheyenne
- When
- July 6, 7:26 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 8.29 mi N of Wild Horse
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 38.940, -103.000
Heavy rain and strong (non-severe) winds were also reported.
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 Alabama, July 6, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 6 to 7, 2009
- Lightning Strike in Montana, July 6, 2009
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 6, 2009
- Flash Flooding in Maine, July 6, 2009
- Hail in New Mexico, July 6, 2009
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, July 6, 2009
- Flash Flood in Maine, July 6 to 7, 2009
- Damaging Winds in Wyoming, July 6, 2009
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, July 6, 2009
- Hail in Colorado, July 6, 2009
- Flash Flood and Flood in Louisiana, July 6 to 7, 2009
More
Every storm in Colorado in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Colorado, July 2009
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: 179237, 179239.