{"id":25012,"date":"2025-05-20T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=25012"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:19:49","slug":"dashcam-video-captures-tornado-ripping-apart-house-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/dashcam-video-captures-tornado-ripping-apart-house-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashcam video captures tornado ripping apart house in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 949px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54533277355_c84dea78b1_o.jpg\" alt=\"May 18, 2025 - A tornado touches down near Bennett. (Arapahoe County Sherriff's office)\" width=\"949\" height=\"626\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 18, 2025 &#8211; A tornado touches down near Bennett. (Arapahoe County Sherriff&#8217;s office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two confirmed tornadoes struck just east of Denver Sunday. The National Weather Service has given both twisters a preliminary rating of EF2 with winds between 111 and 135mph. As many as 36 structures, a dozen of which were homes, were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Some absolutely stunning photos and videos have emerged from the event but arguably none more scary than this one. Taken by Fer Romo\u2019s dashcam, it shows the person fleeing in a truck as the tornado in Elbert County rips about a home.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bGOc9QA3A4I?si=Byb8ULWvOJRAF0vU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two confirmed tornadoes struck just east of Denver Sunday. The National Weather Service has given both twisters a preliminary rating of EF2 with winds between 111 and 135mph. As many as 36 structures, a dozen of which were homes, were damaged. Some absolutely stunning photos and videos have emerged from the event but arguably none &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/dashcam-video-captures-tornado-ripping-apart-house-in-colorado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dashcam video captures tornado ripping apart house in Colorado<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25012"}],"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=25012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25015,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25012\/revisions\/25015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}