By STORMTRACKER13 Chief Meteorologist Matt Meister
m.meister@krdo.com
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Storms blew up over the foothills from Denver to Fort Collins between 9:30 and 10pm, prompting a Tornado Warning for the Denver metro area and causing extensive wind, flooding and hail damage over Denver suburbs. Large trees lay across roads in Wheat Ridge and Arvada, and motorists deal with major flooding on heavily travelled roads and in neighborhoods. As of 2am, tornado touchdowns reported in Englewood and Perry Park.
Several large trees are reported down on 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, cars are dented southwest of downtown Denver, shingles are off of roofs and there are unconfirmed reports of a tree on a house in Arvada. Hail sizes peaked with late evening storms at 2" in Fort Collings and Fort Lupton with 60 to 70mph wind gusts blowing shingles off roofs in many neighborhoods.
Storms rolled south across Douglas County into the Pikes Peak region where a trained weather spotter 4 miles southeast of Monument recorded 1.69" of rain in 20 minutes between 12:08 and 12:28AM. The Neighborhood Weather Network recorded:
- .71" Falcon
- .57" I25/N. Academy
- .49" US24 and Peterson Road
- .41" Powers and Galley
- .24" Briargate
- .14" Monument
Hail reports on the north side of El Paso County:
- 1.25" 2 miles east of Monument
- 1.00" 4 miles southeast of Monument
- 1.00" 1 mile north of Black Forest (piled up 1.5" on the ground)
- 0.88" 5 miles southeast of Monument
- Many reports of pea sized hail in Briargate and Stetson Hills
