{"id":332,"date":"2008-08-24T15:18:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2008-08-24T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T21:20:10","slug":"rare-mountain-tornado-strikes-park-county-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/rare-mountain-tornado-strikes-park-county-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare mountain tornado strikes Park County Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Park County tornado near Eleven Mile Reservoir. Image courtesy 7News and Jerry Bivens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a truly unusual weather occurence, a tornado struck near Eleven Mile Reservoir in Park County Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Certainly we are all used to hearing about twisters along the Front Range and on the plains but mountain tornadoes are quite rare – the rugged terrain usually disrupts the weather patterns necessary to product tornadoes.\u00a0 Authorities estimate five vehicles were damaged including a motorhome and pickup truck camper that were overturned, a trailer was destroyed.\u00a0 Beyond cuts and scrapes, thankfully no one was injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Colorado is ranked ninth in the country with an average of 40 tornadoes a year.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that every state in the union – including Alaska and Hawaii – have had tornadoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Doing some research at the TornadoProject.com<\/a> yields an interesting fact as well.\u00a0 This was Park County’s first tornado ever.\u00a0 That leaves 12 of Colorado’s 64 counties that have never had a tornado including:<\/p>\n

Clear Creek
\nDolores
\nGarfield
\nGilpin
\nGunnison
\nHinsdale
\nLake
\nMontrose
\nOuray
\nSan Juan
\nSan Miguel
\nSummit<\/p>\n

It does serve as a reminder that while the unofficial severe weather season is behind us, Colorado’s weather is anything but boring and everyone should be aware of all the types of weather hazards that are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a truly unusual weather occurence, a tornado struck near Eleven Mile Reservoir in Park County Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 Certainly we are all used to hearing about twisters along the Front Range and on the plains but mountain tornadoes are quite rare – the rugged terrain usually disrupts the weather patterns necessary to product tornadoes.\u00a0 Authorities … Continue reading Rare mountain tornado strikes Park County Saturday<\/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],"tags":[52,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332"}],"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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}