Hail in Fort Collins and Greeley on Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Storm Prediction Center logged 8 hail reports in Fort Collins and Greeley on Thursday, August 3, 2023, between 5:55 pm and 7:10 pm MDT, in 2 of the metro's 2 counties. The largest was 1.75 inches at Kersey (Weld County) at 7:10 pm. NOAA radar flagged 603 hail signatures inside the metro that day: 160 rated a 100% chance of hail and 166 with a maximum expected size of 1 inch or more.
Where hail was reported
Reports came from 5 places in Larimer and Weld counties, named as the National Weather Service described them.
- Greeley 2 reports, up to 1.25 in
- Kersey 2 reports, up to 1.75 in
- Lucerne 2 reports, up to 1.00 in
- Fort Collins 1 report, up to 1.00 in
- Pawnee Buttes 1 report, up to 1.25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:55 pm | 1.00 | 4 S Fort Collins | Larimer | (BOU) |
| 6:15 pm | 1.25 | 11 ENE Pawnee Buttes | Weld | (BOU) |
| 6:36 pm | 1.00 | 2 WSW Lucerne | Weld | (BOU) |
| 6:39 pm | 1.00 | 2 NE Greeley | Weld | (BOU) |
| 6:41 pm | 1.00 | 1 SW Lucerne | Weld | (BOU) |
| 6:44 pm | 1.25 | 2 ENE Greeley | Weld | (BOU) |
| 7:01 pm | 1.75 | Kersey | Weld | Corrects previous hail report from Kersey. (BOU) |
| 7:10 pm | 1.75 | Kersey | Weld | (BOU) |
What NEXRAD radar recorded inside the metro
603 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; 160 were rated 100% and 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KCYS | 299 | 72 | 88 | 8 | 2.75 in | 12:02 am | 10:02 pm |
| KFTG | 217 | 52 | 48 | 0 | 1.75 in | 12:04 am | 9:48 pm |
| KDEN | 59 | 26 | 22 | 0 | 1.75 in | 1:59 am | 7:32 pm |
| KPUX | 24 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1.25 in | 2:19 pm | 7:24 pm |
| KGLD | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in | 6:33 pm | 7:39 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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