Posts Tagged ‘tornado’
Thursday, June 25th, 2015 3:58pm MDT
The National Weather Service completed an assessment of the damage caused during yesterday’s severe weather in the Denver metro area. They determined that a tornado did indeed touch down and was responsible for the bulk of the damage in Aurora. The service said the twister was on the ground for 2.8 miles as it passed […]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 1:38pm MDT
An amazing tornado video captured by a dash mounted camera was released on YouTube recently. Apparently taken in Russia on August 29, a surprised driver pulls out of his garage to discover a tornado ripping through the area. The video begins with the driver backing out of the driveway in heavy rain. As the vehicle […]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 7:19am MDT
Monday’s forecast called for a chance for thunderstorms but Mother Nature threw in a couple of wildcards in the form of two tornadoes in the area. The landspout tornadoes caused minor damage in north Denver and were widely seen across much of the area. The first tornado was reported at 3:53pm just across the Adams […]
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Monday, July 7th, 2014 8:01am MDT
Severe weather struck eastern Nebraska on June 16 spawning an amazing four EF-4 rated tornadoes in less than an hour. Two of these were twins, formed from the same supercell thunderstorm at nearly the same time, and stunning video from a resident’s porch shows the beasts. While this event and the video are a few […]
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Tags: Nebraska, tornado, Video
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 7:09am MDT
June 3, 1981 appeared to be a pretty typical late spring day in the Denver metro area. Afternoon thunderstorms though would become a ‘perfect storm’ and soon the city of Thornton would find itself witness to a tornado that would go down in the Denver weather history books. Five tornadoes would strike that day but […]
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Tags: 1981 Thornton Tornado, Severe Weather, tornado
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Monday, April 28th, 2014 6:28am MDT
Tornado activity in the United States had been at record low levels before this weekend. Mother Nature came roaring back to life Sunday however spawning a deadly outbreak of twisters with more expected Monday. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center accumulated reports of 31 tornadoes Sunday although the actual number will likely be less once analyzed. […]
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Friday, June 21st, 2013 2:10pm MDT
The tornado that struck on the grounds of Denver International Airport (DIA) on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 has been rated an EF1 with winds up to 109 mph. The twister came within a half mile of Concourses A and B and sent workers and travelers scrambling to tornado shelters. Scroll down to see more photos […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2012 7:09am MDT
With its towering mountains and pristine mountain landscape, Colorado’s high country is not normally associated with tornadoes. Saturday however a rare high altitude twister appeared in the skies and touched down at the second highest altitude a tornado has ever been recorded at. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com including amazing video.
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Tags: Mount Evans, tornado
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Friday, June 8th, 2012 11:15am MDT
Mother Nature brought severe weather to northeastern Colorado again yesterday but for the second day in a row Thornton missed out on the action. Since the storms wouldn’t come to us, ThorntonWeather.com went to the storms. Thornton seems to be in a bit of a ‘storm drought’ of late with most thunderstorms passing us by […]
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Tags: Elbert County, Severe Weather, storm chasing, tornado
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 4:50pm MDT
The Bay State is not one which is normally associated with tornadoes having only seen 152 twisters in the past 60 years – up until last week. Massachusetts took a big hit last week though as a massive tornado ripped through the Springfield area killing four people. Satellite imagery released by the USGS and NASA […]
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Tags: June Weather, Massachusetts, nasa, Satellite Imagery, Severe Weather, tornado, usgs
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