Are there tornadoes in Elbert county, Colorado, recently?”
Large Tornado Causes Damage in Colorado ————— ELBERT COUNTY, Colo. — A large tornado barreled across Elbert County on Monday, flattening a barn and ripping the roof off an airplane hangar, as the streak of severe weather along the Front Range extended to nine straight days. There were several initial reports of tornadoes, which suggested there were multiple tornadoes on the ground, however the 9NEWS Weather Team is confident the reports were all of the same massive tornado. The large tornado was first confirmed about 12 miles southeast of Castle Rock in Douglas County between 1:30 and 2 p.m. The tornado moved steadily east on the ground and passed south of Elbert. The huge twister damaged a barn four miles east of Elbert in Elbert County. Sky9 shot video of a barn which was flattened by the tornado, but it wasn’t immediately clear if it was the same barn. A small airplane hangar in Elbert County, located near County Road 82 and Elbert Road, had its roof and three of its wall
A twister danced on the plains Monday afternoon, leveling two barns and uprooting trees in Elbert County, as the Front Range endured its eighth consecutive day of tornadic weather. The weather, however, isn’t that unusual for early June, said National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin. Recent dry years and technology that delivers instant weather warnings and dramatic photos of funnel clouds and twisters for TV and the Internet probably make typical June thunderstorms seem more prolific, he said. “I know awareness is heightened, and I know it’s been pretty active every day for a week, but June is our stormiest month,” he said. “I know from sitting in front of this radar for 15 years that, yeah, this happens.” Monday’s twister was on the ground in Elbert County for only about six minutes, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado, about 100 yards wide, leveled two barns less than a mile apart west of the town of Elbert about 1:30 p.m. The storm cut through a grove o
DENVER — At least two tornadoes touched down in Colorado on Monday, and forecasters called one “large and extremely dangerous,” but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The larger tornado touched down near Elbert, about 40 miles southeast of Denver. The other was reported about five miles southwest of Fort Collins or 50 miles north of Denver. The Elbert-area tornado “got really huge,” said Cathy Wilson, who works at an auto parts store in Elizabeth, about 10 miles north of Elbert. “There was definitely a lot of thunder, lightning and rain here for a while. I know when we were watching it, it was about a mile wide, it seemed, and would get wider, then get narrower,” she said.
