Hold on for a stormy night.
We could be in for the metro ars
worst hail of the season so far
and out east tornado warnings he
been popping off 1 after anothe.
Denver and Aurora are in
the bullseye right now.
Lots of heavy hail falling.
Some reports half dollar size.
If you were in it,
you don't need me to tell you it is loud.
Out on the Eastern Plains,
tornadoes touched down near Akron. They
were under tornado warnings for hours,
with two tornadoes touching
down at the exact same time.
We're checking with first respos
out there about possible
damage out in Sterling.
Several inches of rain and one
afternoon is just way too much
for the streets to handle.
Darrell sharing this video of te
flooding in his neighborhood tonight.
Danielle Grants We got
Act one this afternoon.
Brief intermission, Act 2.
Right now, who
lighting up the night sky, you ?
The storm system sitting right p
downtown Denver. Back behind it.
Still quite the lightning show,
plus the hail.
We're dealing with hail pushing
directly here to the city,
something we have been waiting n
throughout the afternoon where most of
the action was off to the Eastern Plains.
Tonight the focus returns to downtown.
We are under a severe thunderstm
watch until 10:00 PM Would not e
surprised if we see that extended out
and that a severe thunderstorm warning
directly across downtown Denverd
then further off to the east Ad.
Raphoe Denver and Jefferson County see
this area in blue kind of near Park Hill.
That's the hail court.
That's where we're experiencingt
the largest hail within this ce.
It's shifting to the east ever so slowly.
I mean, it is just crawling about 10 mph,
a lot of lightning as you push
out toward DIA.
This definitely could be
impacting folks out there.
But again,
heavy rain and a whole lot of
lightning and Thunder out to the West
we go another severe thunderstom
warning into the foothills.
This storm system has just been
building upon itself dropping so much.
Much rain.
So there's still more in the pipeline
to push back in here to the cit.
So this storm system that's ove,
it's just the beginning.
Northern Colorado,
out there toward Fort Collins,
into the foothills,
still looking pretty ominous.
Storms just to the northeast of
Greeley and still around I-76.
It has been busy.
The eastern plains looking at te
storms primarily across the far
eastern side of the state now,
but around Sterling and Akron where we
saw those tornadoes earlier this afternoon,
we saw anywhere between two 3-4
inches of rain come down South flash.
Flood warnings are going to cone
until at least 10:30 tonight.
Look at this, the dew points,
50s and 60s.
This is something rare that we
see for the Denver metro area
and off to the eastern plains.
This is just showcasing how much
moisture is in the atmosphere.
The winds have been cranking 20
to 30 mph as we go throughout
the next couple of hours.
These storms will shift ever so
slowly off to the east by 7:00.
O'clock.
We get a brief break tomorrow
morning before we do it all
over again tomorrow afternoon.
Meteorologist Lauren.
Robinson, she has been on the
ground tracking these storms,
kind of following them.
Lauren,
it sounds like you're right
smack dab in the middle of it,
and that's exactly right.
We are under this storm right n.
We're at Colfax and Race St.
and we're continuing our way eastward.
We've been following this storm
since it hit Lakewood or so,
but let's go ahead and take a lk
outside at what we're dealing w.
We did have some heavy hail here and there.
It looks like we're under
another period of heavy hail.
Where this storm has been reported to have
hail any between dime to quarter size,
lots of heavy downpours,
lightning and Thunder.
You can even see some St.
flooding here as we continue to move off.
Take a look off to the sides
where the cars are parked.
Those water levels are rising
up the tire marks here.
We're also seeing lots of lightg
and Thunder winds potentially
gusting up to around 50 mph.
And as you said,
the storm is continuing its way eastward.
It pushed right through the middle of down.
In town Denver dropping hail and
heavy downpours along the way.
So we are going to continue to monitor
this storm as it moves its way eastward.
Again,
we're on Colfax going east right now.
We're about to approach York St.
So if you are on the roads or he
to be on the roads this evening,
you want to try to,
I guess limit any sort of travel
options because we are seeing
these cars not doing too well.
We were on Hwy.
6 maybe about 10 minutes ago and
we were seeing lots of cars.
Doing exactly what you're
not supposed to be doing.
And they were stopping under the overpasses,
under the bridges as hail startd
dropping and that was causing at
of congestion and hazardous tral
for other drivers behind those
cars that were stopped along the
underpass and and the bridges t.
So again,
we're going to continue to
monitor this storm.
We have the severe thunderstorm warning
right over downtown Denver until around
9:50. Also have some strong off
into the plains all day long.
Right now we have Kelly Rinky out near
Greeley following some storms t.
So Kelly, what are you seeing?
Hey Lauren, stay safe out there.
Well, it's pretty stormy here and Greeley,
but the weather relatively calm,
just a little bit of lightning,
a little bit of rain,
but it was nothing like what wew
in Brighton earlier this evenin.
Take a look at some video we
took just a couple of hours ago.
The wind picked up and that sto.
Pounded the area.
Pea sized hail came down pretty hard,
forcing a lot of people to
take cover at a gas station,
including some very good boys.
They were just waiting for their TV moment.
Those golden retrievers were so cute,
but unfortunately we saw someone that
wasn't able to get undercover as quickly.
We saw a guy caught in the
storm on his bicycle.
It was a pretty bad day to forget a helmet.
Hopefully he was able to get home okay
to the roads heading up north they are.
Pretty OK, A little wet.
Just take it easy.
But some of those secondary roa,
we were seeing some flooding as
the storm was making its way ea.
So if you were heading out late tonight,
just make sure you were taking .
Nice and easy, guys,
back to you.
Just a good, good wash there for
Greeley is Denver and Aurora.
Get their good wash right now,
Kelly. Thank you.
The storms are still going on te
Eastern Plains, where that torno
warning started about 3:00 o'clk
and just kept going for five ho.
At least 18 tornado warnings
issued this afternoon outside
of Sterling in Akron.
At one point, our Corey Repenhan
looked like he was reporting frm
the dark of night when it wasn'.
It was just that dark out there.
Now it is actually night, Corey.
And what are you seeing?
Well, I'm in Hudson right now aa
thunderstorm just moved through here.
It's severe warmed and it's kicg
some strong winds back out towards me.
I may be able to catch that one
that's coming out of the Denver
metro area when I'm done here,
but it was really quite an
experience to watch the mechanis
of these thunderstorms today.
Like you said, past 18 tornado warnings,
that's the second time May 8th had 17.
So this is the most tornado wars
we've seen since 2014 and when I
was watching these things devel.
It's no surprise that there were
many tornadoes reported today.
One that I have was able to wits
develop just South of Akron.
You we may be able to show
you some video of that.
They had multiple vortices and t
I mean by that is that there was
one main tornado and then there
were several smaller funnels and
one of those funnels touched do.
So they're actually multiple vortices
on the ground at the same time
just South of Akron off of Hwy.
63. Now, fortunately,
as far as we can tell so far,
this tornado only hit power lines and
knocked power lines down across.
63. They're closing the road,
but we haven't heard of any
more significant tornado damage.
But the flooding and hail damage
will probably be significant.
We'll calculate that when it comes tomorrow.
There's buildings.
An an office building was brougt
down by heavy rain in sterling.
So these are all things that we'll have
to check out as we continue to monitor,
monitor these storms that
move through here tonight.
Yeah.
Tonight a rare night shift for y
Repenhagen storm chasing because it's
a rare night shift for the weat.
All right. Thank you, Corey.