Hail in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 24 hail reports in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, between 2:49 pm and 9:39 pm MDT, in 1 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 2.50 inches at 3 S Peyton (El Paso County) at 5:00 pm. NOAA radar flagged 374 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 221 rated a 100% chance of hail and 174 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 7 places in El Paso County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Black Forest 11 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Air Force Academy 6 reports, up to 1.50 in
- Monument 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Peterson AFB 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Colorado Springs 1 report, up to 1.75 in
- Fountain 1 report, up to 1.25 in
- Peyton 1 report, up to 2.50 in
Every hail report logged that day
Times are Mountain Daylight Time. Sizes are in inches, as reported. The comment is the National Weather Service's text as published in the Storm Prediction Center's daily log.
| Time | Size | Place | County | NWS comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:49 pm | 1.00 | 2 S Monument | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:00 pm | 1.50 | 2 ESE Air Force Academy | El Paso | Ping pong hail I-25 and bRIARGATE. (PUB) |
| 3:02 pm | 1.00 | 3 WSW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:03 pm | 1.00 | 4 W Black Forest | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:09 pm | 1.00 | 3 ESE Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:12 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:14 pm | 1.50 | 4 W Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:20 pm | 1.00 | 6 SW Black Forest | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:25 pm | 1.00 | 2 NNE Monument | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:32 pm | 1.00 | 5 SSW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:33 pm | 1.00 | 5 SW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:39 pm | 2.00 | 3 WSW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:43 pm | 1.00 | 5 SW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:45 pm | 1.75 | 10 N Colorado Springs | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:47 pm | 1.50 | 5 SSW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 4:25 pm | 1.25 | 5 SSE Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 4:30 pm | 1.25 | 6 SSE Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 4:33 pm | 1.25 | 6 SSW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 4:50 pm | 1.00 | 3 ENE Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 4:51 pm | 1.25 | 2 N Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 5:00 pm | 2.50 | 3 S Peyton | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 5:25 pm | 1.60 | 5 SW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 9:25 pm | 1.00 | 3 NE Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 9:39 pm | 1.25 | 3 NNE Fountain | El Paso | (PUB) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
374 signatures from 5 radars fell inside the metro's counties on this local date, counting every cell the algorithm rated from a 10% to a 100% chance of hail; 221 were rated 100% and 41 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.
| Radar | Signatures | Rated 100% | 1 in or more | 2 in or more | Largest expected | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KPUX | 157 | 103 | 91 | 33 | 3.50 in | 2:28 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KFTG | 121 | 78 | 58 | 5 | 2.25 in | 3:05 pm | 11:55 pm |
| KDEN | 72 | 30 | 19 | 2 | 2.25 in | 2:34 pm | 9:50 pm |
| KGLD | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2.00 in | 5:50 pm | 11:49 pm |
| KCYS | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 2:59 pm | 9:17 pm |
Each radar that scans a storm writes its own signature about every 4 to 6 minutes, so one storm produces many rows and overlapping radars count it more than once. The raw rows for this day are in NOAA's Severe Weather Data Inventory.
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