Possible tornado strikes Pike's Peak highway.

[John Farley]

Sure looks like a tornado to me. In one of the pictures, trees in the foreground are down to the right, and in the background, down to the left. Not to mention a velocity couplet on radar where it happened. And Pike's Peak was under a tornado warning at the time.

Possible tornado strikes Pikes Peak Highway Thursday afternoon (kktv.com)

 

[John Farley]

Now confirmed as an EF-1 tornado.

 

[James K]

Saw that on the news on Friday.
Been some tornadoes at odd places in CO this year!
Like the one up near Antero Reservoir on June 30..

 

[KenMcWatters]

NWS Pueblo has a full writeup of the event here.

Here's a striking photo from that page, showing the storm's meso and wall cloud from *above*, taken near the summit of Pike's Peak. Based on my review of a topo map, the EF-1 tornado path occurred near 9000-9500 feet elevation.

 

[James K]

NWS Pueblo has a full writeup of the event here.

Unfortunately just comes up as a blank page for me.
I'll try again later just incase its some weird bug/issue with the site.

 

[Bob Schafer]

Try this:

July 20 2023 Pikes Peak Tornado

www.weather.gov

Had it in my browsing history. I live in the Pueblo CWA, too.

 

[James K]

@Bob Schafer
Thanks .. that one worked.
Interesting to read & look through.

I'm in the next CWA up - Denver/Boulder