Hail in Colorado Springs on Friday, July 7, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 16 hail reports in Colorado Springs on Friday, July 7, 2023, between 3:20 pm and 5:45 pm MDT, in 2 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Cripple Creek (Teller County) at 5:45 pm. NOAA radar flagged 462 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 90 rated a 100% chance of hail and 94 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in El Paso and Teller counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Peterson AFB 10 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Cripple Creek 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Schriever AFB 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Falcon 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Victor 1 report, up to 1.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:20 pm | 1.00 | 4 NW Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:21 pm | 1.50 | 2 NW Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:23 pm | 1.00 | 2 NW Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:23 pm | 1.00 | 6 NNW Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:24 pm | 1.00 | 1 N Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:25 pm | 1.25 | 1 N Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:26 pm | 1.75 | 2 NW Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:26 pm | 1.00 | 5 WSW Falcon | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:35 pm | 1.25 | 4 NNW Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:52 pm | 1.00 | 3 ENE Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 4:01 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 4:02 pm | 1.00 | 3 E Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 4:18 pm | 1.25 | 2 NW Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 5:35 pm | 1.50 | Victor | Teller | Damage to windshields and skylights. Time estimated from radar. (PUB) |
| 5:40 pm | 1.75 | Cripple Creek | Teller | Reports of damaged windows in cars and communications lines down. Size estimated. (PUB) |
| 5:45 pm | 1.75 | Cripple Creek | Teller | Picture from social media... size estimated. (PUB) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
462 signatures from 3 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; 90 were rated 100% and 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFTG | 246 | 67 | 60 | 6 | 2.50 in | 1:01 pm | 10:41 pm |
| KPUX | 151 | 18 | 34 | 10 | 2.50 in | 1:02 pm | 11:18 pm |
| KDEN | 65 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.75 in | 1:06 pm | 11:10 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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