Tornado monitoring continues until 6 p.m. in the Colorado Far East (photo credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
12:52 PM: The Hanging Lake Rest Area at Exit 125 off Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon has been closed due to flooding, and the Colorado Department of Transportation is urging drivers to be aware of the flooding in the area. there is
12:48 pm: A tornado warning is in effect for Laird until 1 p.m. In addition to the tornado, pea-sized hail is possible in the area east of Ray to the Kansas border.
Tornado Warning (including Laird CO until 1pm MDT) pic.twitter.com/ZAVLMnQWjf
— NWS Goodland (@NWSGoodland) May 11, 2023
12:03pm: A tornado warning is in effect for Hale until 12:30 p.m. In addition to tornadoes, quarter-sized hail can also occur.
Tornado warning in effect for Hale, Colorado until 12:30 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/cyVpWJA9Dt
— NWS Goodland (@NWSGoodland) May 11, 2023
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for eastern Colorado.
The 11:20 a.m. clock covers Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, and Yuma counties, runs until 6 p.m., and includes parts of Kansas and Nebraska. said a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology..
Tornado warning in effect for parts of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska until 7 p.m. CDT pic.twitter.com/YAQsBERabS
— NWS Goodland (@NWSGoodland) May 11, 2023
A tornado formed in eastern Colorado near the Kansas border on Thursday morning and may have bypassed the town of Arapahoe in Cheyenne County, prompting the Weather Service to issue and then lift a warning.
It’s unclear whether the tornado reached the open plains, said Kyle Knight, a meteorologist with the Bureau of Weather in Goodland, Kansas.
“We haven’t received any reports. If there’s a tornado, it’s going to rain, so we’ll have to see if anything happens. It forms and lands on the ground and crashes.” and may have risen again.”
Weather Bureau radar showed a vortex forming just before 11 a.m. about 5 to 10 miles southwest of Arapahoe, population 102.
Bruno Rodriguez, a meteorologist at the Boulder-based Bureau of Meteorology, said tornado damage is determined by strength and size, with tornadoes in Colorado typically weaker than tornadoes in the Great Plains or the southeastern United States. “Obviously, if it reaches an urban area, it can cause significant damage.”
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a tornado watch for Colorado on Wednesday as thunderstorms swept from the mountains onto the plateau. Meteorologists said tornadoes are less likely to form Thursday near urban frontal mountains in Colorado. A cloudy gray thunderstorm cloud that brings rain to the Denver and Colorado Springs subways increases the risk of flooding. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced flood monitoring Valid until Friday.
