Hail on Date

Hail in Colorado Springs on Sunday, July 7, 2024

The Storm Prediction Center logged 7 hail reports in Colorado Springs on Sunday, July 7, 2024, between 2:42 pm and 6:03 pm MDT, in 2 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 1.50 inches at Cripple Creek (Teller County) at 5:20 pm. NOAA radar flagged 450 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 190 rated a 100% chance of hail and 179 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.

7spotter hail reports in the metro
1.50 inlargest reported, Cripple Creek
450radar hail signatures inside the metro, 190 rated 100%
3.75 inlargest expected size on radar
Map of Colorado Springs counties with 450 radar hail signatures and 7 spotter hail reports on July 7, 2024 El Paso Teller 1.50 in, Cripple Creek
Amber dots are radar hail signatures inside the metro's counties (every cell the algorithm rated, 10% to 100% chance of hail), darkest under 1 inch, brighter from 1 inch, brightest at 2 inches and up. Triangles are spotter reports; the filled one is the largest. County names are drawn at each county's center.

Where hail was reported

Reports came from 5 places in El Paso and Teller counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.

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.

TimeSizePlaceCountyNWS comment
2:42 pm1.003 S Colorado SpringsEl PasoReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB)
3:03 pm1.501 SSE SecurityEl Paso(PUB)
5:20 pm1.50Cripple CreekTellerHail size and time is estimated based on a picture from social media. (PUB)
5:39 pm1.001 N Peterson AFBEl PasoReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB)
5:44 pm1.001 N Peterson AFBEl PasoReport from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.). (PUB)
6:00 pm1.004 SE Peterson AFBEl Paso(PUB)
6:03 pm1.007 SE PeytonEl Paso(PUB)

What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro

450 signatures from 4 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; 190 were rated 100% and 60 had a maximum expected size of 2 inches or more.

RadarSignaturesRated 100%1 in or more2 in or moreLargest expectedFirstLast
KFTG2088676252.75 in1:16 pm11:35 pm
KPUX1947278343.75 in1:18 pm11:38 pm
KGLD25181401.75 in3:12 pm9:56 pm
KDEN23141112.00 in2:15 pm6:17 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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Spotter reports come from the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary daily logs, grouped here by local calendar date (Mountain Daylight Time) and by county: a report counts for Colorado Springs when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 2 counties (El Paso and Teller counties). Radar signatures are estimates from the Hail Detection Algorithm, not measured stones; they include every cell it rated, from a 10% to a 100% probability of hail. How these pages are built.