WELD COUNTY, Colo. – The first tornado of the season hit Colorado Friday evening, according to the National Weather Service in Boulder. The NWS Boulder division issued a Tornado Warning for areas in Weld County including Eaton and Lucerne at around 6:18 p.m. The warning was in effect until 6:45 p.m. Just before 7 p.m.,…
Epic Tornado Photo Still Powerful 10 Years Later. Here’s How the Photographer Got the Shot
A once-in-a-lifetime tornado photo reached its 10th anniversary Tuesday, marking a powerful moment in extreme weather photography. Photographer Jim Reed was hunting for severe weather to capture on May 8, 2008, in Colby, Kansas, when he came across the tornado that would be the subject of his legendary shot. “I had a gut feeling it…
Rare landspout tornado gusts through Phoenix in wild night of severe weather
Not even Dorothy or Toto noticed on Thursday evening in Phoenix, when a small tornado touched down in the metro area just after 5 p.m. Surprisingly, the tornado was a minor inconvenience in the face of the destructive winds and flooding rainfall that slammed the downtown area in the monsoonal deluge. Several wet microbursts wrought…