The Hanging Lake rest area along Interstate 70 at Exit 125 in Glenwood Canyon is closed by flooding and the Colorado Department of Transportation urges drivers to be aware of flooding in the area.
“We have not received any reports. If there was a tornado, it would be rain-wrapped, so we’ll have to wait to see if it hit anything. There’s a chance it may have formed, touched down and hit a field, and went back up.”
The weather service radar showed a vortex about five to 10 miles southwest of Arapahoe, population 102, shortly before 11 a.m. Damage from a tornado depends on the strength and size, and tornadoes in Colorado typically are weaker than those on the Great Plains and the southeastern United States, said Bruno Rodriguez, a weather service meteorologist based in Boulder. “Obviously, if it does reach an urban area, it can cause extensive damage.”
On Wednesday, the weather service issued tornado watches in Colorado as thunderstorms rolled off the mountains onto the high plains. Tornadoes close to Colorado’s urban Front Range appeared less likely Thursday, meteorologists said. A cloudy gray mass of thunderstorms dropping rain in metro Denver and Colorado Springs has raised risks of flooding. The weather service has issued
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