{"id":2804,"date":"2010-06-10T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2011-05-30T06:26:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:26:04","slug":"severe-weather-strikes-large-hail-heavy-rain-fall-on-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/severe-weather-strikes-large-hail-heavy-rain-fall-on-thornton\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather strikes – Large hail, heavy rain fall on Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is Colorado’s severe weather season and Thornton received a reminder of that Thursday night.\u00a0 The late afternoon brought various watches and warnings and soon hail as large as ping-pong balls was falling.<\/p>\n

What started as a light rain with ominous clouds overhead soon turned to hail that pounded central Thornton near 120th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard.\u00a0 Mercifully, the hail never got any bigger than ping-pong ball sized however that is plenty big enough to have caused damage.\u00a0 Residents should check their vehicles and other property closely for damage.<\/p>\n

Following the hail, in a short 20 minute span, the area was inundated with 1\/4 inch of rain coming down in sheets.\u00a0 A rainbow soon appeared to the east signifying this round of severe weather was over.<\/p>\n

Check out the slideshow below for some of the images from the short-lived but potentially damaging storm.<\/p>\n

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It is Colorado’s severe weather season and Thornton received a reminder of that Thursday night.\u00a0 The late afternoon brought various watches and warnings and soon hail as large as ping-pong balls was falling. What started as a light rain with ominous clouds overhead soon turned to hail that pounded central Thornton near 120th Avenue and … Continue reading Severe weather strikes – Large hail, heavy rain fall on Thornton<\/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":[7],"tags":[16,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804"}],"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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3679,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/3679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}