Good afternoon on a Friday afternoon.
That has been a bumpy one
around the metro area.
This is a live look at Fort Collins.
They haven't been feeling it
just yet, but it's coming.
Well, the county is feeling it.
Some pretty severe thunderstorms. Yeah.
Hail has made its way in the metro
area today. Many of these areas that
have seen this sort of hail this
afternoon are now seeing sunshine.
This came in from the Golden Arvada area.
Aiden also sent some
video in from Northglenn.
This is hail there as well.
DIA is feeling it right now.
They have a ground delay there.
The FAA saying most flights
have to wait about two hours
before they can take off there.
Oh, and a lot of people traveling
this weekend, of course.
Danielle's with us.
It's been one of those afternoons.
But like here at the station we're seeing
sunshine again after going through.
So a pretty rough ride for a while.
I know it was loud.
It was noisy around, loud down down Denver.
We were rocking and rolling earlier.
Today and now most of the
action is east of I-25,
but we still have a couple of severe
thunderstorm warnings out there.
Certainly our skies looking
quite ominous the further West,
or I should say the further E you go.
This is our live camera.
A top Lookout Mountain stretching off
to the east, dark skies out there.
Still some raindrops on the
camera out there in Greeley,
up and down the I-25 corridor,
the eastern side of the state under a
severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00.
O'clock tonight.
Today, the biggest threats that we have
seen Large hail the size of 1/4 or larger,
plus incredibly strong.
Winds and a whole lot of lightning.
Look at this on HD Doppler nine.
I just threw on the Lightning
Tracker more than 700 strikes within
the past about 1520 minutes time.
The majority of those right
around the Front Range.
We have been treated to quite the light show,
to say the very least.
We do have the severe thunderstorm
warning in place across the DIA area.
Of course.
They have been dealing with the worst of it.
We'll see if the National Weather
Service extends this out right now.
Scheduled to cancel out at 4:00
PM and then another.
The severe thunderstorm warning just
up there in Weld County until 4:45.
For us, the heaviest rain now
shifting east of the airport.
A bit of good news, but still there's
a whole lot of lightning out there.
We zoom out and you can
see everything along Hwy.
85 stretching into Weld County.
Lots of hail this afternoon too.
That really has been the biggest story.
We were looking at half
dollar size ping pong,
ball size hail within some of these storms.
This is kind of a look at the hail
tracks as they push through Arvada,
up to Brighton,
Platteville and even through Greeley too.
Some of these hail reports.
It's coming in easily about an inch and
1/2 in diameter around Mountain View,
Federal Heights as well as Northwest Denver
picking up an inch and a quarter hail.
And right now, these thunderstorms
are now stretching off to the east.
By about 5:00 o'clock,
they'll be impacting our friends out
there in Fort Morgan, so get ready.
The storms are on the way by about 6:00
PM further to the northeast around I-76.
So if you're hopping in the car,
you're heading out to Nebraska,
you will be treated to quite the light show.
As we look ahead toward tomorrow morning,
things start to clear out.
I do want to say with all.
That rain. That we had it.
Dia.
We are now in the number
four spot for the top five.
Wettest maze here in Denver,
Officially 5.34 inches and counting.
You guys a storm system still
impacting folks out there out of
DIA as it shifts off to the east.
We'll go over the timing of
today's storms and a look ahead
toward the holiday weekend.
I'll let you know if they're
going to stick around.
Yeah, that that wettest May thing.
That noise you hear is Thunder.
It's not champagne corks popping.
No, it is.
It's been quite a May.
We're looking at pictures
from Corey Reppenhagen,
who's been out chasing the storms.
I know, Corey,
you live in my side of town,
so the storms came to
your backyard. But you're out in Bennett.
Yeah, isn't that just the case there Kim?
Yep, the Arvada area got
nailed by this one pretty hard.
It's formed a line now and I'm out
here in Bennett just east of DIA.
You can hear the sound of some really
heavy raindrops mixed in with some hail
out here in the in the Bennett area.
We we're seeing mostly pee to nickel
size sale hail out here at the moment.
But yeah it was impressive when the storms
first popped in the Denver metro area they.
Went up high and fast and created some
large hail and like Kim mentioned they it
was kind of the bullseye once again today.
Although instead of the South
metro it was the northwest metro.
Some of the hail size that has
been reported through the area and
we've got plenty of pictures that
have come in from the area people
documenting this storm for themselves.
It it really was that biggest cell,
that individual cell that popped
was in the Arvada Westminster.
The Thornton area we have reports of 1
inch to 1 1/2 inch size hail and that's
basically quarter inch to half dollar
to ping pong size hail and so that is
considered very large damaging hail.
And so we saw quite a bit of out there
and then it could have formed a line.
The storms kind of evolved into this line.
And that is actually kind of a good
thing for most of us because that kind
of diminishes the hail and tornado threat
and then it increases the straight line
wind threat out in front of that line,
so.
Right now that is what we are keeping an
eye on is that straight line wind threat
that that's out in front of this line.
So we're going to stay in that,
but we have other crews that are
running around in the Denver metro
area keeping an eye on the evolution
of this storm and one we've got
Lauren Robinson out there.
Lauren,
now where are you at and what
are you seeing currently?
Well, right now we're looking at damage
now that a lot of those storms have
already passed their way through and the
sun is even starting to return out here.
I'm in the Sunnyvale area where
we did pass this downed tree.
You can see it, it's pretty large here.
This is 6th and Florence,
just near 6th and Fulton.
So we have this large downed
tree in the road.
It looks like 1 eastbound lane is
closed with Aurora police on scene.
Now with this and the weather that
pushed through, we don't have any
official reports just yet, but.
As you take a look at the root of this,
this is either a lightning strike
or possibly even from strong winds,
but this did push down a big
heavy part of this tree.
This branch is pretty thick so
we are going to continue to look
for more damage around the area
like this because this had to have
gone through a pretty heavy storm
and this area also of note was
under a severe thunderstorm watch.
It was able to expire,
but under that watch we did have the
possibility of 60 mile per hour in winds,
one inch hail.
And some heavy rainfall.
So we are going to continue to
keep that in perspective as well.
Now let's go ahead and look at
some video from earlier.
We're on I-70 and Wadsworth a couple
of hours ago under a huge hailstorm.
You can even hear how loud the hail was
on our vehicle and we are going to,
We did see a lot of cars
piling under the underpass,
which this is seems like a good time
to remind you that is not what you're
supposed to do just because that
could cause backups and accidents.
But we did see lots of heavy hail,
heavy rainfall, lots of lightning.
Being loud Thunder again,
this was earlier near I-70 and Wodsworth,
but now here live back at the scene.
Again,
the sun is starting to return now that
these storms have passed through this area.
We do still want to monitor other
areas of Colorado that will be
seeing the stronger weather,
these stronger storms,
But again,
you do want to continue to watch
for the aftermath of this is going
to be stuff like damage and these
downed trees all around the area.
So we'll turn the back to you and again,
this is something you want to
continue to watch for reporting.
9 News meteorologist Lauren Robinson All
right, we'll be keeping an out,
of course, throughout the next few hours.