[RMVHF] Re: Sunday tornado in Parker

[Phil Krichbaum]

Ken and Dave,
    I was watching it live on 9 News and they said it was near the 
reservoir. Later they said it was probably a F0 or F1. I'm glad it 
didn't damage any of your stuff. Nice to see them from a distance for sure.
    I had some close lightening last night  down to one and two seconds. 
It caused my FT-2400 2m FM rig to loose it's memories and I had to kill 
the power to the 2.4 GHz RX for high speed internet to get it to reset 
this AM. The UPS on the HDTV tripped and all seems OK. I had no antennas 
in the shack and everything unplugged from the wall. Hopefully I won't 
find any surprises in the next few days.
    Phil

Ken Anderson wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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.
>
> -snip-
>
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