[RMVHF] Sunday tornado in Parker

[Ken Anderson]

Phil and Dave

Re the tornado in Parker

The tornado was very visible from the SW facing deck of my house and, from what I could see, it was on the east side of I-25.  It was between I-25 and a new housing development south of Stonegate probably about 7-10  miles from here.  My wife spotted it first at 5:25 pm when she looked out the kitchen window and called for me to look.  It was already on the ground and looked like a silvery-white funnel reaching all the way to the ground.  It quickly disapated and started going back up about halfway into the clouds.  I went back outside and started picking up my materials where I was installing an underground  drain pipe for my downspout for the front of the house.  Karen yelled at 5:33pm that it was back again.  I walked over to the side of the house and could readily see the tornado on the ground in the same place near the new Hess-Reiter Resevoir in  Parker, luckily a place where no houses were located.  It was really kicking up a lot of dust and dirt with a light brown color similar to something that we see on the Discovery Channel...  I'm no expert but it was probably a minor tornado (F1?) but it looked big enough to do some damage to houses if it was among them.   We got the mother in law down in the basement since she was the slowest mover in the family and Karen and I went back up on the deck to see if it was coming our way.  We got a couple of pictures and, thankfully, it looks pretty far off.  Luckily, it it disappeared about 5:47 pm though we kept watch to see if it would come back again.  We had no hail or rain at our house and we were under the edge of the storm when the tornado was on the ground.

Interesting to watch from afar but I  wouldn't want a tornado like it to come our way.  We don't get too many tornadoes around here in eastern CO.  I've seen two others in the past, one in KS and one in OK and they were a lot bigger!

73 Ken, W0ETT

From: W6OAL at aol.com
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:55:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Sunday tornado in Parker
To: vailphil at sopris.net
CC: w0ett at msn.com








I guess the tornado was 20 miles from me (and probably Ken). I can see, on 
a clear day, into the shopping area at Surrey Ridge on the west side of I-25. 
The storm obscured any visibility that far yesterday. I got lots of rain and 
hail, a couple of times. The temperature as still int he 80's here and we didn't 
get much wind. 
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