Funnel Clouds in Denver!!

[Sub Atomic]

w00t!!

[backscatter712]

1. They're right in my neck of the woods!

Hope nobody's sent to the land of Oz...

[Sub Atomic]

3. I'm near Cheesman Park.

We were watching one form just west of us.

[Cha]

20. Good Luck! Cheesman Park is a beautiful

area of Denver.

[janx]

2. I remember seeing funnel clouds in Boulder in the 90s.

It was the only time I saw them, and I had grown up in the tornado alley of the midwest. Weird, eh?

[alfredo]

8. After I had a Peyote Smoothie I remember the clouds hissing as they

passed over the Flatirons. No funnel clouds, though I did see a paisley giraffe in the hill.

[janx]

16. Now, now...

:rofl:

No, I wasn't high. I was at work, and I got to see a funnel cloud dissipate into the atmosphere. It was beautiful. It managed to trash the roof of a house just south of us near the Boulder Turnpike.

[alfredo]

19. How can you handle work straight? Hope nobody got hurt. I got caught

in a hail storm while cycling down from Evergreen Colorado. It hurt like hell.

[Buzz Clik]

4. Funnel clouds or funnel cakes?

I'd prefer funnel clouds, but I thought I'd check...

[cwydro]

10. I must be hungry...

'cause I thought the same thing.:9

[MineralMan]

23. Ah...the State Fair is only a couple of months away.

Funnel cakes...mmmm.

And this year, they have pig cheeks on a stick. I have to try that one. The ostrich on a stick a couple of years ago was quite tasty. And then there is hot dish on a stick. Man...I won't have to eat for a week after all that....

[tridim]

5. That was one nasty looking storm.

Fortunately I'm a bit south of the action.

[a la izquierda]

6. we had a tornado the other night...

here in Norman, OK. i saw the funnel as it was forming, because the clouds were all different colors.

the siren didn't go off until ten minutes after the storm passed.

[librechik]

7. got it on tape!

to be continued

[Sub Atomic]

9. Put it up on YouTube!!

[BlooInBloo]

11. Anywhere near Sloan Lake? I used to live by there.

[Sub Atomic]

13. Not sure exactly where this was, but

it was south of Sloan's lake.

I live on Capital Hill and the funnel cloud was to the west of me.

[BlooInBloo]

21. Gotcha - thanks! (And stay safe!)

[mountainvue]

28. Funnel clouds by Coors Field. n/t

[Trajan]

12. I have family in Brighton

Yikes ...

[earthside]

14. Much hail damage.

I watched several incipient funnel clouds forming over Wheat Ridge and Arvada. It doesn't look like anything substantial developed ... thank god.

But the hail damage in my Arvada neighborhood is quite depressing -- much destruction done to trees and plants.

Not very funny.

[Sub Atomic]

18. Shit. I've got friends from Wheat Ridge that are on vacation.

I should go check their house and make sure everything is OK.

[janx]

22. Hail damage, heavy, wet snow...

Such is life in the West. Around 2000 or so, I had just finished xeriscaping our back yard in Broomfield. I'd spent many hundreds of dollars on plants and a lot of back-breaking days and hours planting them. That night, a huge snow storm moved in, so the next morning I had to go out and uncover all kinds of baby plants: aspens, Lena's broom, blue-star juniper, hummingbird cups, yucca...and on and on. They were hardy plants that survived eventually, but they were beaten down by the storm that morning. At other times, thick and wet snows caused branches of very large trees (old cottonwoods, typically) to snap and fall. One storm caused such damage in this fashion that huge refuse piles appeared at recycling centers and also the community center.

I now live in NM, and places here get some tough weather as well--although not as much where I live. Yet before I moved here, in 2004, Socorro, NM experienced a historic hail storm. You can read about it here:

http://www.mystrangenewmexico.com/the-columns/2006/10/30/the-2004-socorro-hailstorm.html

I still see severely dented cars on campus with bumper stickers attesting to the fact that they survived the hail storm. They are crinkled like tin foil.

[Joe the Liberal]

15. Lol there's been a bunch of sirens going off here. n/t

[MineralMan]

25. No basement? I'd head for mine. Not a problem for me,

since my desk is down there anyhow.

[Joe the Liberal]

35. Nope....

I live in an apartment on the third floor, the sirens stopped awhile ago so I'm not worried one bit. I've lived in CO nearly my whole life and have never seen a tornado in person.

[DearAbby]

17. Up at Heritage Square in Golden

Poured rain and hailed small pea-sized...Nasty looking clouds.

[Blue Belle]

24. Not suprising.

We used to get them in Colorado Springs all the time.

[jody]

26. You guys make me homesick. Lived in Boulder several years. Our favorite spot was the Flagstaff House

for dinner on a full moon night, preferably in the Winter.

Oh such wonderful memories of dinner there with my late wife.

ON EDIT ADD:
One picture from the net for old times sake.

[backscatter712]

27. It appears to have blown over for the time being.

A little bit of hail came down, probably causing yet more damage to gardens and such (we got some nasty hail yesterday - a sustained shower of pea-sized to marble-sized hail.

And I saw some of those green clouds earlier today, but nothing turned into a full-scale ground-touching tornado.

[mountainvue]

29. I'm watching the next round come in from the west.

Hold on. Here we go again.

[Touchdown]

30. Is that what the sirens were for?

I was playing Railroad Tycoon, didn't know what happened.:shrug:

[Sub Atomic]

31. LOL. Yeah, that's what they were for.

I thought it was something on television until I looked outside and saw the funky colored sky.

[Touchdown]

33. I'm around the corner from you on Josephine by the Botanic Gardens.

Maybe I should've stopped my empire building for a few minutes.:dunce:

[AspenRose]

32. I saw it on the Weather Channel website

Bizarre....

[LeftofU]

34. Again today

been this way all week.