NoCo Tornado yesterday
- Thread starter Bender
- Start date
Just think of how many pigeons that could be shooting your direction.
Shit, that ain’t nothing but a little overgrown dust devil!
How it progressed. I was about 13-15 mile North as the crow flies. Property damage and I think they said 1 ranch lost some calves and 2 cows
If you get on the weather service storm spotter network channels you will get up to ten minutes extra in warning time.
You would think it worked faster but when things drop down close in the spotters report it, nws quickly prepares a warning and issues it, usualy the guys on the vhf and uhf radios get told a couple of minutes beforehand and then available to emergency networks that run the sirens but those folks seen to take many precious minutes before it happens.
You don't have to chase anything to get involved or just real time information to make your own decisions.
Mostly I have reported snow and ice accumulations becaue our automated sensors froze, lol. Hail size and a few flooded streets.
I tried to slip in behind one storm with spotty reports of rotation but golf ball size hail busted windshields in highway traffic and shut me off.
I did manage to call my son and get all the kids in his neighborhood off the street before those hailstones ripped his ao a new one.
The storm passed his house before warning sirens wailed as happens with fast movers often.
Hail hurts and will break your fishing rods, bloody you up and knock you out.
My son now has a ham radio license and a starter radio he can hear spotter reports on.
His truck now looks like a storm chasers truck.
You would think it worked faster but when things drop down close in the spotters report it, nws quickly prepares a warning and issues it, usualy the guys on the vhf and uhf radios get told a couple of minutes beforehand and then available to emergency networks that run the sirens but those folks seen to take many precious minutes before it happens.
You don't have to chase anything to get involved or just real time information to make your own decisions.
Mostly I have reported snow and ice accumulations becaue our automated sensors froze, lol. Hail size and a few flooded streets.
I tried to slip in behind one storm with spotty reports of rotation but golf ball size hail busted windshields in highway traffic and shut me off.
I did manage to call my son and get all the kids in his neighborhood off the street before those hailstones ripped his ao a new one.
The storm passed his house before warning sirens wailed as happens with fast movers often.
Hail hurts and will break your fishing rods, bloody you up and knock you out.
My son now has a ham radio license and a starter radio he can hear spotter reports on.
His truck now looks like a storm chasers truck.
Last edited:
My brother and his family were right in the projected path. He has some impressive pics as he was taking cover.
Other brother was just a few miles west of the projected path and didn't even know it was going on....
Not bad compared to many twisters we have seen. Land spout variety, why it looks different and didn't mess up as much crap as it could have based on width.
Windsor CO remembers a really bad tornado not that many years ago. very close to where this was.
Other brother was just a few miles west of the projected path and didn't even know it was going on....
Not bad compared to many twisters we have seen. Land spout variety, why it looks different and didn't mess up as much crap as it could have based on width.
Windsor CO remembers a really bad tornado not that many years ago. very close to where this was.
"Landspout tornadoes are short-lived and generally weak but can still hold winds of up to 100 mph. Landspouts are the land equivalent of a waterspout which typically is just a condensation funnel."
It would be my luck my shot would get sucked up and land three counties over. OK in Georgia that admittedly isn't very far...
Might need to hold under a bit too? 2000 mils maybe? Strelok wasn't very helpful.
Reported wind speeds at 99 mph. Miller Farms said it picked up a combine and dropped it. Threw a grain trailer out in the next field.
Interesting info in this link.
www.9news.com
8 interesting facts about Monday's tornado
The Weld County tornado could have been the tallest tornado Colorado has ever seen.
www.9news.com
I’ve been in 100 mph winds, granted it was not twisting but it didn’t feel like it would throw vehicles around. That had to of been faster than 100 in the spout.
We pretty routinely have gusts in the 70s.
www.denverpost.com
Preliminary data indicates Colorado Springs recorded its strongest wind gust on record during bomb cyclone
According to the National Weather Service office in Pueblo, the Colorado Springs Airport recorded a 96 mph wind gust on Wednesday afternoon, which is the strongest wind gust on record for the airpo…
www.denverpost.com
Been in em many times. Get down is a good idea!
Once watched as winds right around 104 mph pushed an un-anchored ice fishing shack very quickly across a mountain lake into rocks.
life near the continental divide can be interesting.
Moments later had a 350 lb dude fall through a thin spot up to his eye balls.
Everyone was fine. Just scared.
constipation cured!
Once watched as winds right around 104 mph pushed an un-anchored ice fishing shack very quickly across a mountain lake into rocks.
life near the continental divide can be interesting.
Moments later had a 350 lb dude fall through a thin spot up to his eye balls.
Everyone was fine. Just scared.
constipation cured!
- Nov 3, 2010
- 11,124
- 24,878
I like big butts.
Wait, did I get off topic?
Wait, did I get off topic?
- Nov 3, 2010
- 11,124
- 24,878
Been in quite a few tornadoes while growing up in western Arkansas. They are always so unpredictable. Seen a waterspout a while back in Wilmington at the beach that was pretty cool.
"Picked up a combine and dropped it." I am sure this one could be subject to many interpretations. I once picked up a car and dropped it, I only got two wheels off the ground and it didn't move anywhere.Tipping a box 53” trailer vs “throwing a combine” is pretty different.
Love me a tipped semi and leaking diesel….
A tornado hit one of my friends houses a few years ago. The son was headed down the hall way to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and said the house just tore apart around him and he was thrown through the air. His dad woke up in the driveway, still on the mattress from his bed, his wife was stuck under some debris, she was beaten and bruised but they were all OK. It crumpled most of their cars into twisted masses of metal, stripped the tree branched, and completely destroyed their home. My dad found his wallet hundreds of feet from his house completely empty. He said it was in his pants pocket on the floor. Pieces of his house made it over 400 yards onto and across the highway. They never found a lot of their stuff. How no one was killed is nothing short of a miracle. Even their cow survived in a pin next to the house. We found him walking out in someones field.
See I knew colorado was too dangerous a place to live. I need to tell everyone moving to colorado to stay where they are its safer.
I'm glad there are very few tornadoes where I live in Greenfield, WI, a close suburb of Milwaukee. They almost always die out because of the close proximity to Lake Michigan. Now go 30-40 miles to the SW, W, or NW and its WI's own tornado alley.
Strange in the late summer / fall I have seen unstable cells cross the hot water of our Texas lakes and blow up before my eyes.
Especially if clear sky in front of storm's path.
Don't know if that is really a thing or not but since I was many times in said lake I'm a believer.
Especially if clear sky in front of storm's path.
Don't know if that is really a thing or not but since I was many times in said lake I'm a believer.
You guys know why Bender is so interested in this Colorado tornado???
He lives in North Denver!!!
(Not sorry bro!)
He lives in North Denver!!!
(Not sorry bro!)
They said on the news last night a guy lost his ‘67 GTO in the storm.
Oh, they said something else that I didn’t quite understand. They mentioned this was not a “natural” tornado. It was more of a wind turbulence created by a massive flock of pigeons flying south. They said it was almost as if they were fleeing Cheyenne.
Oh, they said something else that I didn’t quite understand. They mentioned this was not a “natural” tornado. It was more of a wind turbulence created by a massive flock of pigeons flying south. They said it was almost as if they were fleeing Cheyenne.
Little known fact; Weld County, where the above mentioned tornado/land spout, has the most occurrence of tornados than any other county in the country.
weather.com
If simply considering the raw number of tornado segments over that 67-year period, regardless of a county's size or population, you may be surprised to learn the number-one county is in Colorado.
Weld County, Colorado, just north of the Denver metro area, has tallied 262 tornado segments, an average of roughly 4 segments each year, from 1950-2016. Another Colorado Front Range county, Adams County, ranked third with 173 tornado segments.
Adams county borders Weld to the South. This is the exact area that I live.
The Most Tornado-Prone Counties in the U.S. | Weather.com
Where tornadoes have most often been observed since 1950. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
weather.com
If simply considering the raw number of tornado segments over that 67-year period, regardless of a county's size or population, you may be surprised to learn the number-one county is in Colorado.
Weld County, Colorado, just north of the Denver metro area, has tallied 262 tornado segments, an average of roughly 4 segments each year, from 1950-2016. Another Colorado Front Range county, Adams County, ranked third with 173 tornado segments.
Adams county borders Weld to the South. This is the exact area that I live.
And if you think you're safe from tornados in the mountains, you'd be wrong.
kdvr.com
Tornado forces closure of Devil’s Head Fire Tower, popular campground
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — An EF1 tornado with maximum winds around 90 mph hit the South Platte Ranger District in Douglas County on Tuesday afternoon. The damage from the tornado, which touched…
kdvr.com
Similar threads
