| Station Number: |
CO-LR-4 |
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| Station Name: |
Bellvue 5.9 W |
| Date: |
7/6/2014 2:41 PM |
| Submitted |
7/06/2014 4:39 PM
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| Taken at registered location: |
True |
| Notes: |
This was the longest continuous hailstorm I have ever experienced. We live in the High Park Fire burn area, and the hillsides are washing, and the water bars on the dirt road we live on could not contain the water. The road is washing out, too. I have pictures of the hail that I will send to Nolan. Many of the first hailstones that fell were tear-dropped shaped with clear ice on the rounded edge and white ice on the pointed end. I have never seen that. Towards the end of the storm, a few more of those teardrop stones fell, but they were significantly smaller. The hail started as 1/4", and within 3 minutes the stones were 1" in diameter. At the 15 minute mark, the stone size grew smaller, about 1/2" on average. By the time the hail became intermittent (27 minutes into the storm) the stones were back down to about 1/4". Heavy rain started about 7 minutes into the storm, and we got 0.87" of rain in the gauge in that 27 minute period of time. A significant weather report was also filed. It is now 3:20 pm, and the rain and hail have subsided, though there is still thunder every 10 seconds or so. |
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