{"id":347926,"date":"2026-06-24T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347926\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:35:12","slug":"large-hail-slams-el-paso-county-and-southern-colorado-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347926\/","title":{"rendered":"Large hail slams El Paso County and southern Colorado on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHERN COLORADO (KOAA) \u2014 On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, severe hail ripped through El Paso County and southern Colorado. <\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782268511_733_.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1256\" height=\"932\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the top hail reports as of 8 p.m. are 2.5&#8243; in Fountain and Widefield. See a bigger hailstone in your neighborhood? Send us a photo with a ruler or reference object!<\/p>\n<p>The risk of large damaging hail remains in place through 1 a.m. with an active SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH in effect.<\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782268512_793_.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>____<\/p>\n<p>Have a question or story idea you would like the First Alert 5 Weather team to consider? Email: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.koaa.com\/weather\/weather-science\/mailto:weather@koaa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weather@koaa.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch KOAA News5 on your time, anytime with our free streaming app available for your Roku, FireTV, AppleTV and Android TV.  Just search <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.koaa.com\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KOAA News5<\/a>, download and start watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTHERN COLORADO (KOAA) \u2014 On Tuesday, June 23, 2026, severe hail ripped through El Paso County and southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[118588,118589,118590,118591,118592,118593,118594,943,14442,118595,138,140,139],"class_list":["post-347926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-5-weather","tag-7-day-forecast","tag-canon-city","tag-canon-city-forecast","tag-canon-city-weather","tag-casey-dorn","tag-channel-5","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-springs","tag-colorado-springs-forecast","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}