{"id":279,"date":"2008-08-06T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-08-07T04:43:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T10:43:55","slug":"thunderstorm-brings-funnel-clouds-severe-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/thunderstorm-brings-funnel-clouds-severe-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm brings funnel clouds, severe rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exciting evening in Thornton\u00a0as far as the weather goes.\u00a0 Just before 6:00pm Wednesday a slow-moving severe thunderstorm over north Thornton brought everything from funnel clouds to lightning to torrential rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Thornton radar image when the storm was at its height. The storm dumped over 2" of rain in 1 hour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rain began falling in the area of 120th and Colorado Blvd at 6:00pm and over the next 70 minutes dumped 2.36″ of precipitation.\u00a0 Lightning and thunder were predominant for the entire time as well.\u00a0 At 6:40 the National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning when several funnel clouds were spotted between south Thornton and Dacono.\u00a0 These slow moving storms presented a clear and present danger but appear to have passed relatively uneventful.\u00a0 Minor street flooding has been reported in some parts of Thornton but otherwise little damage.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

As of this writing, a Flood Advsiory and Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for much of the Denver metro area.\u00a0 Radar does indicate the storm is deteriorating and things should beging to settle down now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As always, please stay tuned to ThorntonWeather.com for the latest.\u00a0 Be sure to monitor our Warnings and Advsiories page<\/a> for realtime updates on current watches and warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An exciting evening in Thornton\u00a0as far as the weather goes.\u00a0 Just before 6:00pm Wednesday a slow-moving severe thunderstorm over north Thornton brought everything from funnel clouds to lightning to torrential rain.\u00a0 Rain began falling in the area of 120th and Colorado Blvd at 6:00pm and over the next 70 minutes dumped 2.36″ of precipitation.\u00a0 Lightning … Continue reading Thunderstorm brings funnel clouds, severe rain<\/span> →<\/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":[44,732,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}