Where in colorado do tornadoes mosly happen?

Question

I live in aurora colorado, we occationaly hear the sirens, but rarely. i hear there actualy are a good # of tornadoes that happen in colorado, but i dont know where. also is this summer going to produce many tornadoes?

im not concerned about them, just cerious, mostly because i wnat to see one.

Answer 1

Weld county and Adams county are numbers 1 & 2 in the U.S. for the most number of tornadoes. If our summer weather patterns are anything like it's been this winter, I think we can count on a lot of tornadoes.

Answer 2

Tornadoes occur in Denver, saw one there from tall office building once.

Best to GET AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

Early warning: Sky and atmosphere will have highly disturbed aspect and yellowish tinge. Hail often precedes tornado. Greenish yellow tinge is worse....Look out!

Yes, can easily happen in Aurora.

Colorado tornadoes can lift 18-wheelers and uproot trees with very large trunks. Out in farming areas, cattle areas, they have been seen to flatten everything to the ground, sometimes clear a structure away so thoroughly it is difficult to find the pieces.

Accounts for flying cows.

Seemed to be big around June when I was living in Denver.

I do not know how likely they are up in the mountains, but they can certainly have damaging wind velocities.

You can be curious if it is definitely far off and you have a good observation point. But if it is anywhere near close, the wise thing to do is seek the strongest, most inward and deep shelter.

Nothing to watch when it actually arrives, just flying debris that will quickly blind you or cut you up terribly, Maybe worse....

Air movements are rather accelerated this year, a more violent equalization pattern as hot and cold air masses collide and interact.

I suspect many amateur aircraft pilots will make unfortunate choice of not heeding adverse weather prospects....

Tornado reistant housing in Nunitak's Weather Blog. Just google that and scroll down left margin to the 'tag cloud.'

Let's hope there are no F5's. Those pretty much destroy anything and everything, usually have a very wide base.

I live in Michigan now. We get tornadoes, usually not as big as OK, TX.

I don't have exact statistics, just seems about same as Colorado, tornado-wise, maybe somewhat less.

Tornadoes occuring more easterly and northerly (both) in recent years.

London and New York, Florida too. Sometimes spectacular waterspouts around the latter.

Good pics online. Links in my blog.

Answer 3

Having lived in Ft Collins for some time while at the University there I found most tornadoes occured east of the foothills in the state and eastward to the Kansas border with the further east the better as this is where you get those prime ingredients of warm,moist, unstable southerly low level winds overrun with strong, dry, and cold westerly winds that generate the horizontal vorticity tubes that in the presence of existing storms can be drawn up and into the cell creating a large scale circulation and the genesis of the smaller scale tornado vortex.

Answer 4

I'd guess the eastern extreme of Colorado, if any do happen there. I lived in Boulder, Colorado for six years and never heard of a tornado anywhere in the state. I thought the mountains kinda protected it. If they did happen, they would need flat plains, which would at the foot of the Rockies, in the eastern part of the state.

I love Colorado, but now I live in Texas.

Answer 5

Check out this narrative from the Colorado Climate Center. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to see the section on severe storms.
http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/climateofcolorado.php

Answer 6

Eastern Colorado in the high plains.