Happy Monday,
As we celebrate our great weather here in the metro, the folks to our west had an exciting Sunday. Check out this picture we got into the NBC Action Weather Center. It comes to us from Patricia Wilson who lives south of Denver in Castle Rock. It looks really close but Patricia estimates the tornado was about 5 to 10 minutes away from her house.
I have seen a couple perspectives of this storm from various sources; i.e video, pictures. From this vantage point it looks more like a landspout as a parent thunderstorm cloud is not real apparent to me. It didn't last long, check out the next picture.
It appears here the tornado is roping out or weakening, it wasn't long after this the twister fell apart. There were no reports of damage and no one was hurt thankfully. Still, yesterday in Colorado there were 8 reports of tornadoes. Oh by the way, the 2009 Farmer's Almanac is out and predicts a snowier than average winter for us and below average temperatures in January & February.
Have a great Monday,
Brett