{"id":189,"date":"2008-06-04T13:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-06-04T13:56:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:56:46","slug":"tornado-watch-issued-for-metro-area-northeast-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/tornado-watch-issued-for-metro-area-northeast-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Watch Issued for Metro Area &#8211; Northeast Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-190\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Tornado Watch issued for Denver.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tornado.jpg\" alt=\"Tornado Watch issued for Denver.\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tornado.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tornado-150x129.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The National Weather Service has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/wx4.php\">issued a Tornado Watch for much of northeastern Colorado<\/a> including the Denver Metro area.\u00a0 Counties under the watch include Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and Yuma.\u00a0 This watch is in effect until 8:00pm tonight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tornado Watches are issued when weather conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms that are capable of producing tornadoes. A tornado watch therefore implies that it is also a severe thunderstorm watch.<\/p>\n<p>As we all saw two weeks ago in Weld County, conditions can quickly deteriorate and the weather can present a very real danger to life and property.\u00a0 Now would be a good time to run through tornado emergency procedures in your mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please remember, should the tornado threat increase:\u00a0 <strong>Get in, get down and cover up!\u00a0 <\/strong>A well built structure with a basement is ideal shelter but if that is not available, an interior\u00a0bathroom or closet\u00a0is next best.\u00a0 Modular and mobile homes are NEVER a good option nor are vehicles.\u00a0 If you are in a vehicle and a tornado is near, abandon it immediately and seek shelter in a low lying area such as a ditch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For these and other tornado safety tips, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=133\">please see our Severe Weather 101 &#8211; Tornadoes<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for much of northeastern Colorado including the Denver Metro area.\u00a0 Counties under the watch include Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and Yuma.\u00a0 This watch is in effect until 8:00pm tonight.\u00a0 Tornado Watches are issued when weather conditions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/tornado-watch-issued-for-metro-area-northeast-colorado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornado Watch Issued for Metro Area &#8211; Northeast Colorado<\/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":[6,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}