Boulder County... Fort Collins, CO... Milliken, CO... tornadoes being reported... Windsor (SE of Fort Collins) has reported SEVERE damage and baseball sized hail... Wellington, CO... Folks, this is bad.
EXTREMELY LARGE TORNADO in Milliken... wow. There is one fatality reported, but that is not confirmed. Some fatalities (more than one) reported by the Weld County sheriff. He is sharing an emotional discussion of his encounter with the complete demolition of the Windsor area on this live stream (thanks, Paul). Schools on lock down... trouble responding because street signs are gone... another tornado warning up... God, be with these people...
Mikey (thanks, Mikey) sent me a link to this story... and it had a link to this... as part of a video stream of the Milliken tornado which appears to have been a LARGE WEDGE TORNADO... 
Greeley, CO... here is the report... DIRECT HIT ON STATE FARM BUILDING. CARS TOSSED OFF OF ROAD. TREES DOWN. SWIFT COMPANY ROOF TORN OFF. TORNADO 3/4 TO 1 MILE WIDE
Better video capture of that wedge. Thanks, Mikey... for the link.
Unfortunately, it seems that it is Kansas and Nebraska's turn... a Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado watch has been issued for the area outlined.
1636EDT: My heart just sunk as I read the updated outlook for today issued by the Storm Prediction Center, with Kansas being placed in a HIGH RISK for severe weather. People need to be ready for extremely dangerous weather. 
I am still watching the live stream out of Denver. It's tough to watch and listen to people's reactions and just know how devastating it was.
1706EDT Update: More incoming.
Tornado in Gove... 1712EDT
GOVE, KS REPORT RELAYED FROM SPOTTER NETWORK
1733EDT: Looks like another tornado warning for around the Windsor area... Denver/Boulder radar went down as I was going after a capture. Here we go... Nunn, CO under fire...
1818EDT Update: I just noticed that Steve Miller TX is en route to a cell that I expect will be tornado warned momentarily. I guess he didn't have to work so much after all... it lured him away... I can understand. Go Steve, go!!!
1900EDT Update: Steve Miller, TX is making headway and it has held together and been tornado warned...
2209EDT Update: 36 tornado reports...so far...
~Dew
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Colorado tornado outbreak currently underway!!
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3/4 to 1mile wide!!!!! Oh my. The PDS is scary....don't see those very often. That Jet is kicking!
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Just awful. I saw pictures of a day care center that was damaged badly. Fortunately they had evacuated all the children... whew. I fear there might be a large number of fatalities with this one. What a storm.
ReplyDeleteI am looking at all the chasers out there in Kansas. Should be well covered there.
I've read about the article of this in yahoo a while ago.. I'm trying to look for a video but the link for the streaming doesn't work on me. Anyway, thanks for that update Dew..
ReplyDeleteSorry, it didn't work, Ice. I think they have probably taken down the feed since the immediate threat was over... at that time... things fire back up again today.
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