Hail in Fort Collins and Greeley on Tuesday, May 9, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 9 hail reports in Fort Collins and Greeley on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, between 7:55 pm and 11:50 pm MDT, in 2 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 2.00 inches at 2 NW Frederick (Weld County) at 11:33 pm. NOAA radar flagged 756 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 368 rated a 100% chance of hail and 235 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 3 places in Larimer and Weld counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Erie 5 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Frederick 3 reports, up to 2.00 in
- Timnath 1 report, up to 1.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:55 pm | 1.00 | Timnath | Larimer | FROM TWITTER. (BOU) |
| 11:10 pm | 1.50 | Erie | Weld | FROM TWITTER... WITH PICTURES. (BOU) |
| 11:10 pm | 1.50 | 2 NNE Erie | Weld | FRONT WINDSHIELD SMASHED... REAR WINDOW GONE... TREES STRIPPED... ROOF DAMAGE. (BOU) |
| 11:10 pm | 1.75 | 3 N Erie | Weld | (BOU) |
| 11:18 pm | 2.00 | 3 WSW Frederick | Weld | REPORT FROM MPING: HEN EGG (2.00 IN.). (BOU) |
| 11:20 pm | 2.00 | 2 NNE Erie | Weld | W1187. (BOU) |
| 11:20 pm | 1.25 | 2 NW Frederick | Weld | (BOU) |
| 11:33 pm | 2.00 | 2 NW Frederick | Weld | (BOU) |
| 11:50 pm | 1.75 | Erie | Weld | FROM TWITTER... WITH PICTURE. CAR WINDOWS BROKEN. (BOU) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
756 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; 368 were rated 100% and 90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KDEN | 259 | 163 | 100 | 39 | 2.75 in | 12:39 am | 12:00 am |
| KCYS | 189 | 73 | 44 | 15 | 3.25 in | 5:34 am | 11:59 pm |
| KFTG | 169 | 65 | 42 | 15 | 3.50 in | 12:37 am | 11:58 pm |
| KPUX | 135 | 64 | 46 | 21 | 3.75 in | 5:48 pm | 11:56 pm |
| KGLD | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1.50 in | 8:33 pm | 9:12 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 Fort Collins and Greeley when its coordinates fall inside one of the metro's 2 counties (Larimer and Weld 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.