{"id":1598,"date":"2009-05-20T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:45:17","slug":"rare-tornado-touches-down-in-mesa-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/rare-tornado-touches-down-in-mesa-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare tornado touches down in Mesa County"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1599\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1599\" title=\"A tornado touched down in Mesa County on Tuesday - only the ninth twister since 1950 in the county.  (File photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-20_0935491.jpg\" alt=\"A tornado touched down in Mesa County on Tuesday - only the ninth twister since 1950 in the county.  (File photo)\" width=\"299\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-20_0935491.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-05-20_0935491-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tornado touched down in Mesa County on Tuesday - only the ninth twister since 1950 in the county. (File photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mesa County, Colorado reported a rare tornado on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/gjt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0099cc;\">National Weather Service in Grand Junction<\/span><\/a> reports that the twister touched down in an open area around 3:25pm yesterday near Mount Garfield (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Mount+Garfield,+co&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=39.125017,-108.410361&amp;spn=0.063123,0.124626&amp;t=h&amp;z=13\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\">map<\/span><\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported that Meteorologist Jeff Colton said a National Weather Service employee was in the area and saw it happen. No damage or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>This was only the ninth tornado recorded in Mesa County since 1950 and the first since August 2, 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tornadohistoryproject.com\/tornado.php?yr=%25&amp;mo=%25&amp;day=%25&amp;st=Colorado&amp;fu=%25&amp;co=Mesa&amp;l=auto&amp;submit=Table&amp;ddat=on&amp;dsta=on&amp;dfuj=on&amp;dfat=on&amp;dinj=on&amp;dcou=on&amp;format=basic&amp;p=1&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0099cc;\">Click here to view a history of tornadoes in Mesa County.<\/span><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/ga.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa County, Colorado reported a rare tornado on Tuesday afternoon.\u00a0 The National Weather Service in Grand Junction reports that the twister touched down in an open area around 3:25pm yesterday near Mount Garfield (map).\u00a0 The Associated Press reported that Meteorologist Jeff Colton said a National Weather Service employee was in the area and saw it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/rare-tornado-touches-down-in-mesa-county\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rare tornado touches down in Mesa County<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[267,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}