{"id":206,"date":"2008-07-09T07:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2011-01-07T20:04:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T03:04:10","slug":"sentinel-revisits-1981-thornton-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/sentinel-revisits-1981-thornton-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel revisits 1981 Thornton tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2009-06-01_124113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1628\" title=\"On June 3, 1981 a tornado struck Thornton in what is the worst twister to have struck the Denver metro area. Image courtesy the City of Thornton archives.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2009-06-01_124113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2009-06-01_124113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/2009-06-01_124113-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On June 3, 1981 a tornado struck Thornton in what is the worst twister to have struck the Denver metro area. Image courtesy the City of Thornton archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I always tell the story of me being in 6th grade at Hillcrest Elementary in Northglenn on June 3, 1981.\u00a0 Sitting at our desks the principal comes over the intercom and announces that all students need to get under their desks.\u00a0 I look outside and see that it is dark as night &#8211; at least it seemed to be to a scared 12 year old!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, a tornado touched down a few miles away along Washington Street in Thornton destroying 25 homes and injuring 53 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a recent series on the history of Washington Street, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronorthnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel<\/a> revisited that day and the damage the tornado caused.\u00a0 It is fascinating reading whether you have lived here long enough to remember it or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/articles\/2008-06-26_Sentintel_Tornado.pdf\">Click here to read the article (3MB PDF).\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always tell the story of me being in 6th grade at Hillcrest Elementary in Northglenn on June 3, 1981.\u00a0 Sitting at our desks the principal comes over the intercom and announces that all students need to get under their desks.\u00a0 I look outside and see that it is dark as night &#8211; at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/sentinel-revisits-1981-thornton-tornado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sentinel revisits 1981 Thornton tornado<\/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":[7,63],"tags":[37,732,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}