Colorado, 2025

Hail in Colorado, July 14, 2025

July 14, 2025 · NWS PUB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Messy flow was in place over the area, allowing for scattered storm clusters to develop, especially along the Palmer Divide.

Where it happened

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  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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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 happened

The episode as NWS PUB wrote it up.

Messy flow was in place over the area, allowing for scattered storm clusters to develop, especially along the Palmer Divide.

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 Pueblo, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 4:25 PM MST, 23 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 4:25 PM MST, 23 hours 5 minutes before
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The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:27 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, El Paso

When
July 14, 3:30 PM MST to 3:33 PM MST
Where
El Paso County, 0.54 mi E of Calhan
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
39.030, -104.290

Hail measured to 1 inches occurred in northeastern El Paso County.

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

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1287756.