{"id":337,"date":"2008-08-24T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-08-25T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T13:52:08","slug":"tornadoes-strike-douglas-and-elbert-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/tornadoes-strike-douglas-and-elbert-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornadoes strike Douglas and Elbert county"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-338 \" title=\"Photo of the tornado near Parker.  Image courtesy Jeff Smith and 9News.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/parker.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the tornado near Parker.  Image courtesy Jeff Smith and 9News.\" width=\"250\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/parker.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/parker-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of the tornado near Parker. Image courtesy Jeff Smith and 9News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three tornadoes and multiple funnel clouds were reported in Elbert and Douglas counties Sunday evening.\u00a0 At 5:31pm the Centennial Airport tower reported a tornado on the ground five miles southwest of Parker.\u00a0 This was followed by a second tornado reported at 5:47pm six miles northeast of Parker.\u00a0 Lastly, a third twister was spotted three miles west of Castle Rock reported by trained spotters at 6:03pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News video showed the tornadoes weaving through relatively unpopulated areas interspersed wtih some houses.\u00a0 Authorities currently report no major damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tornado warnings were issued but have now expired.\u00a0 As always, please be aware of the weather situation around you and when a danger presents itself, take appropriate action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Update, 8\/25\/08, 7:50am &#8211; Reports are varying on the actual number of tornadoes that touched down.\u00a0 We have seen\u00a0reports\u00a0as low as two twisters to as many as a dozen.\u00a0\u00a0Chances are the actual number is toward the lower end of that range as oftentimes the same tornado is reported by multiple spotters with different descriptions of their locations.\u00a0 The National Weather Service investigates these and\u00a0at some point in the future will determine the true number of tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some video shot by a Parker resident:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QXfRig_S2Q8\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QXfRig_S2Q8\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three tornadoes and multiple funnel clouds were reported in Elbert and Douglas counties Sunday evening.\u00a0 At 5:31pm the Centennial Airport tower reported a tornado on the ground five miles southwest of Parker.\u00a0 This was followed by a second tornado reported at 5:47pm six miles northeast of Parker.\u00a0 Lastly, a third twister was spotted three miles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/tornadoes-strike-douglas-and-elbert-county\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tornadoes strike Douglas and Elbert county<\/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":[6,4],"tags":[53,54,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}