PHOTOS: Coloradans capture torrential rain, waves of hail on social media

As afternoon storms arrived in Colorado on Tuesday bringing with them severe thunderstorm watches and multiple tornado warnings social media users across the state stated heavy rain waves of hail and ominous clouds This is why we never put our shovels away in Colorado one person wrote on X alongside a photo of a hail-filled patio You need them for the hail This is why we never put our shovels away in Colorado You need them for the hail cowx pic twitter com uI Y KuHeB Eric Rabbers ERuns June Heavy rain soaked yards and streets in Parker which remained under a severe thunderstorm watch and flood warning until p m Tuesday Wind in the area created misty low-visibility conditions in the Douglas County town according to video captured on house cameras This afternoon s storm has arrived in Parker northern Douglas County cowx pic twitter com iOPRwqGUCI Lauren Penington laurenpenington June Additional X users captured the torrential Parker rain mixing with pea-size hail flooding the sidewalk outside of their home and low-hanging clouds moving east of the city in an area under a National Weather Operation tornado warning And then this happened I think you could call it torrential with pea-sized hail p Parker COwx summertime NEWS pic twitter com VJp Bemp G AVH AndrewVHallett June Tornado warned cell east of Parker about mins ago cowx pic twitter com npwVVeRhkv Palmer Divide Photography PDPhoto Wx June Heavy rain and hail also pummeled Colorado Springs on Tuesday afternoon according to social media users One video evidenced hail bouncing off a sloped lawn and cars kicking up water while driving down the road The storm passed briskly through Colorado Springs but the pebble-sized hail still littered the grounds of The Broadmoor when it cleared I ve arrived at The Broadmoor for the U S Senior Open as did the hail Like the majority Colorado Springs afternoon storms it hastily passed pic twitter com Qi ZzwLKVJ Brent Briggeman BrentBriggeman June Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter