Saturday, June 6, 2009

The Limon tornado and snowflakes in June

Today, (June 6th) is the anniversary of the Limon Tornado of 1990. A series of severe storms produced as many as 9 tornadoes that night east and southeast of Denver, one of them tearing across Limon at approximately 8:10 pm. It was officially classified as an "F3" tornado on the Fujita scale.

It left about $12 million in damages behind, with few injuries and no fatalities.

On to the weather today...while southern Colorado was warm and breezy, Dickenson, North Dakota started out with several inches of snow, and more snow is expected tonight and tomorrow morning. While many of us think of North Dakota as being a consistently cold place (and if you've ever been there in the summer, you KNOW it isn't), it's been 60 years since the snowflakes have flown in June. Some of that colder air is moving towards Colorado, and you'll experience it on Monday.

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