{"id":1642,"date":"2009-06-09T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:55:08","slug":"tornado-in-aurora-rated-an-ef1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/tornado-in-aurora-rated-an-ef1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado in Aurora rated an EF1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1644\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo87.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1644\" title=\"The tornado that struck Aurora, Colorado has been rated an EF1 with 100 mph winds by the National Weather Service.  Image courtesy Sean Strachan. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo87.jpg\" alt=\"The tornado that struck Aurora, Colorado has been rated an EF1 with 100 mph winds by the National Weather Service.  Image courtesy Sean Strachan. Follow the link below to go to Examiner.com for more images.\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo87.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/photo87-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tornado that struck Aurora, Colorado has been rated an EF1 with 100 mph winds by the National Weather Service. Image courtesy Sean Strachan. Follow the link below to go to Examiner.com for more images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tornado that touched down in the Denver suburb of Aurora and caused damage to a local mall and apartment complex has been rated an EF1 by the National Weather Service.\u00a0 After two days of evaluations, the service said that the twister most likely had winds of 100 mph, placing it in the middle of that rating.<\/p>\n<p>The four other twisters that struck the area will be rated later this week.\u00a0 Because they were short lived and struck in open areas, they mostly likely will be rated as EF0 twisters with winds from 65 mph to 85 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other tornadoes were reported in the area of 144th and I-25, one was reported five miles south of Bennett, one five miles south of Deer Trail and one three miles north of Byers.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"525\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Aurora-Colorado-tornado-rated-an-EF1-with-100-mph-winds?cid=exrss-Denver-Weather-Examiner\">For all the details including photos of the damage and video, check out the complete story on Examiner.com.<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Aurora-Colorado-tornado-rated-an-EF1-with-100-mph-winds?cid=exrss-Denver-Weather-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1165\" title=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png\" alt=\"Examiner.com - Get inside Denver weather\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/examiner-get-inside-150x41.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tornado that touched down in the Denver suburb of Aurora and caused damage to a local mall and apartment complex has been rated an EF1 by the National Weather Service.\u00a0 After two days of evaluations, the service said that the twister most likely had winds of 100 mph, placing it in the middle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/tornado-in-aurora-rated-an-ef1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornado in Aurora rated an EF1<\/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":[7],"tags":[274,162,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642"}],"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=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}