Hail in Colorado Springs on Saturday, August 5, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 36 hail reports in Colorado Springs on Saturday, August 5, 2023, between 2:35 am and 7:54 pm MDT, in 1 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 4.00 inches at 13 SSE Schriever AFB (El Paso County) at 3:45 pm. NOAA radar flagged 408 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 200 rated a 100% chance of hail and 191 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 10 places in El Paso County, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Peterson AFB 8 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Air Force Academy 7 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Schriever AFB 7 reports, up to 4.00 in
- Security 4 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Falcon 3 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Black Forest 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Pinon 2 reports, up to 3.25 in
- Fountain 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Peyton 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Truckton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:35 am | 1.00 | 6 NNW Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 1:30 pm | 1.00 | 5 N Peyton | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:13 pm | 1.25 | 2 NW Air Force Academy | El Paso | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 2:15 pm | 1.00 | 2 SSE Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:20 pm | 1.00 | 2 SE Air Force Academy | El Paso | Located on I-25... just north of Air Force Academy. (PUB) |
| 2:22 pm | 1.00 | 3 ESE Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:22 pm | 1.00 | 1 NNW Air Force Academy | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 2:27 pm | 1.25 | 5 ESE Air Force Academy | El Paso | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 2:35 pm | 1.75 | 5 SW Black Forest | El Paso | Pictures relayed via broadcast media. (PUB) |
| 2:38 pm | 1.25 | 3 E Air Force Academy | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:40 pm | 1.75 | 5 SSW Black Forest | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:45 pm | 1.50 | 3 W Falcon | El Paso | Numerous reports of hail 1.00 to 1.5 inches in this immediate region. (PUB) |
| 2:46 pm | 1.75 | 1 E Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (PUB) |
| 2:46 pm | 1.50 | 2 SSW Falcon | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:49 pm | 1.75 | 4 WSW Falcon | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:53 pm | 2.00 | 3 NE Peterson AFB | El Paso | Numerous reports of ping pong to golf ball size hail. (PUB) |
| 2:56 pm | 1.50 | 4 NE Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (PUB) |
| 2:57 pm | 2.00 | 3 NE Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 2:59 pm | 1.75 | 5 N Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:00 pm | 1.50 | 2 W Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:00 pm | 1.50 | 4 NNW Peterson AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Ping Pong Ball (1.50 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:00 pm | 1.75 | 3 N Peterson AFB | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:08 pm | 2.50 | 2 SW Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Tennis Ball (2.50 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:14 pm | 2.75 | 4 SSW Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Baseball (2.75 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:23 pm | 1.25 | 5 E Security | El Paso | Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:23 pm | 1.00 | 2 ESE Security | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:26 pm | 2.50 | 7 SSE Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Tennis Ball (2.50 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:31 pm | 1.25 | 4 E Security | El Paso | (PUB) |
| 3:35 pm | 1.25 | 1 NNE Security | El Paso | relayed via social media. (PUB) |
| 3:43 pm | 1.00 | 11 SSE Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:45 pm | 4.00 | 13 SSE Schriever AFB | El Paso | Hail between 3 and 4 inches. (PUB) |
| 3:46 pm | 3.00 | 13 NNE Pinon | El Paso | Measured 3.3 inch hail with picture on social media. (PUB) |
| 3:47 pm | 2.25 | 13 SSE Schriever AFB | El Paso | Report from mPING: Hen Egg+ (2.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:48 pm | 3.25 | 11 NNE Pinon | El Paso | Report from mPING: Baseball+ (3.25 in.). (PUB) |
| 3:49 pm | 2.50 | 11 SW Truckton | El Paso | Report from mPING: Tennis Ball (2.50 in.). (PUB) |
| 7:54 pm | 1.00 | 2 NNE Fountain | El Paso | Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
408 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; 200 were rated 100% and 30 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 | 144 | 75 | 64 | 11 | 3.00 in | 1:01 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KPUX | 117 | 53 | 62 | 16 | 3.50 in | 12:57 pm | 11:58 pm |
| KDEN | 114 | 55 | 51 | 0 | 1.50 in | 12:58 pm | 10:33 pm |
| KGLD | 21 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2.00 in | 1:44 pm | 11:21 pm |
| KCYS | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in | 12:57 pm | 1:58 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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