{"id":32761,"date":"2023-07-21T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/national-weather-service-confirms-a-tornado-hit-pikes-peak-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T01:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:07:25","slug":"national-weather-service-confirms-a-tornado-hit-pikes-peak-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/national-weather-service-confirms-a-tornado-hit-pikes-peak-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"National Weather Service confirms a tornado hit Pikes Peak on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fb0055e9-1224-53e1-b9f8-b65f9d14b33e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs on March 3, 2020. (Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs on March 3, 2020. (Hart Van Denburg\/CPR News file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado on the highway leading up to Pikes Peak in Teller County on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has rated it an EF1, based on preliminary looks at the damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a couple of images on social media that indicated that there was a lowering or that a funnel cloud was forming and then we had somebody that was driving on the toll road that sent us potential damage from the potential tornado,\u201d said Klint Skelly, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pueblo.<\/p>\n<p>The service issued a tornado warning about 2 p.m. Thursday, around the same time that reports of a tornado sighting started happening.<\/p>\n<p>The agency began a damage assessment Friday. Final results may be released by Monday. During these assessments, authorities look for ruined buildings or light poles. But because the event happened on the north side of the mountain where there are only trees, Skelly said that could make it a challenge to determine the strength of the tornado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be able to determine the path of the tornado by doing this damage assessment,\u201d he said. \u201cHigher elevation tornadoes, especially, you know, on Pikes Peak of all places, is one of the more rare events that we get in Colorado weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Greenhorn Peak in Pueblo County was also the site of a tornado touchdown, Skelly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get moisture in Colorado, a lot of weird things happen with the weather and we\u2019re actually seeing it this year,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a unique season for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/\" id=\"link-0761d30013acdc27513d35a3fd742f45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-d6833ef2d95136be357c057203933016\">To read more stories from Colorado Public Radio, visit www.cpr.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018When you get moisture in Colorado, a lot of weird things happen with the weather and we&#8217;re actually seeing it this year\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,3632,414],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-tornado","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32761"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}