{"id":3645,"date":"2011-05-18T18:32:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2011-05-18T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:36:32","slug":"severe-weather-pays-a-visit-to-thornton-time-lapse-video-captures-hail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/severe-weather-pays-a-visit-to-thornton-time-lapse-video-captures-hail\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe weather pays a visit to Thornton; Time lapse video captures hail"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Thornton Multipurpose Fields are covered with water from rain and hail after severe weather moved through Thornton. (City of Thornton)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TdRjAsLwB_I\/AAAAAAAAEio\/NYB_kkQSQTE\/s288\/2011-05-18_182307.jpg\" alt=\"The Thornton Multipurpose Fields are covered with water from rain and hail after severe weather moved through Thornton. (City of Thornton)\" width=\"288\" height=\"193\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thornton Multipurpose Fields are covered with water from rain and hail after severe weather moved through Thornton. (City of Thornton)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was quite an eventful afternoon in the Denver metro area as thunderstorms spawned funnel clouds and massive amounts of hail.\u00a0 ThorntonWeather.com&#8217;s webcams captured part of the action as the hail piled up enough to make it look like snow.<\/p>\n<p>Our east webcam started to show some light precipitation before 1:00pm and before 3:00pm hail was falling.\u00a0 Mercifully the size of the hail stones remained small but at our location we received a good couple of inches of accumulation.\u00a0 Watch the time lapse video below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>For all the latest Thornton weather news, follow us on <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thorntonweather\"><strong><em>Twitter<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> and \u2018like\u2019 us on <\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the area of I-25 and 120th Avenue hail 4 to 5 inches was seen.\u00a0 At the Thornton Multipurpose Fields at 108th and Colorado Blvd where ThorntonFest is to be held this Saturday, the fields were extensively flooded.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/City-of-Thornton-Colorado\/113903586116\" target=\"_blank\">Images posted by the city to its Facebook page<\/a> show the mess the rain and hail created.<\/p>\n<p>Funnel clouds were seen across much of the north metro area, mainly in unincorporated Adams County just south of Thornton.\u00a0 As of this writing, no actual tornadoes have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Front Range is just beginning to\u00a0enter its severe weather season.\u00a0 Unfortunately neither the City of Thornton or Adams County provide any sort of warning system to protect residents against the severe weather threat.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton did recently look into alert systems but decided against deploying one.\u00a0 Instead it is waiting for the federal government to deploy its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fema.gov\/news\/newsrelease.fema?id=54882\">Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN)<\/a>.\u00a0 This is disappointing as there are no guarantees that PLAN will launch on time in 2012 or if it will work as advertised.\u00a0 The vast majority of Colorado counties already have systems in place but Thornton and Adams County residents are left without.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qEx0P0HKm9E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qEx0P0HKm9E?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite an eventful afternoon in the Denver metro area as thunderstorms spawned funnel clouds and massive amounts of hail.\u00a0 ThorntonWeather.com&#8217;s webcams captured part of the action as the hail piled up enough to make it look like snow. Our east webcam started to show some light precipitation before 1:00pm and before 3:00pm hail &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/severe-weather-pays-a-visit-to-thornton-time-lapse-video-captures-hail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Severe weather pays a visit to Thornton; Time lapse video captures hail<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[44,16,387,732],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645"}],"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=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}