MILLIKEN, Colo. — Scripps News Denver viewers shared unbelievable photos of massive hail stones that fell across Colorado in uncharacteristic overnight storms.
The National Weather Service in Boulder, Colorado, received reports of anywhere from 1.5-inch to baseball-sized hail across the state.
Morganne Brown confirmed Milliken, Colorado, got hail on the larger end of that scale Tuesday morning, using a baseball for comparison.
Sherry Middleton Budenich compared the hail she found in her Johnstown neighborhood to the size of her Apple Watch with the thunderstorm warning alert on the screen.
Melissa King stacked up the hail she saw in Milliken on Tuesday around 3:47 a.m. to quarters. The stones paled in comparison.
Tommy Cherry has the hail he found in Milliken lying next to a glass and flashlight for scale.
It wasn't just a handful of hail stones that fell across Milliken Tuesday morning. Alli Fitzgibbons said she woke up around 3:30 a.m. to the thunderstorm alert on her phone mentioning baseball-sided hail hitting the area. It proceeding to pour straight hail for at least 20 minutes.
This is what it looked like outside her house:
Scripps News Denver's Allie Jennerjahn captured the extreme damage, caused by the overnight hail, to cars in Milliken with holes the size of baseballs or larger.
Roberto Muñoz Jr. not only saw these level holes in his back windshield, but the hail also broke a large part of the glass panel loose from its mount.
Many cars just had the whole windshield shattered to smithereens, Scripps News Denver Photojournalist Jaimie Williams-Dawson observed in Milliken.
Aside from having to get windshields replaced, many drivers are faced with cleaning out their cars from the tiny shards blown across the interior. Hector Medina shared an example of this kind of cleanup ahead from Milliken, where a lot of the damage is concentrated.
Some areas did not get quite as badly hit. Jessica in Henderson shared with Scripps News Denver what appears to be about 1.5-inch sized hail.
More severe weather is possible on Tuesday afternoon before the dry and blazing hot weather returns to Denver by the end of the week. Check out Scripps News Denver Chief Meteorologist Lisa Hidalgo's full forecast for more details.
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Severe storms begin to pick up Tuesday heading into the evening hours
Skies will begin to turn stormy and unsettled as early as the lunch hour. That's when we expect the first round of storms to develop along the Front Range. For the Pikes Peak Region and I-25 corridor, our main window for severe weather will come between 1-6 pm.
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