For my free choice blog I am choosing to write about the tornado outbreak that struck Colorado over the last two days.  My favorite storm chaser Reed Timmer was on the storm system when a massive and extremely strong tornado touched down in front of his vehicle.  He was only about twenty yards away.  (If you would like to see footage he posts it on his Facebook and Twitter profiles).

The biggest tornado touched down in Wray, Colorado.  It injured five people, but fortunately was mainly over farmland, so no one was killed.  After the tornado struck, people surveyed the damage and rated the tornado as a powerful EF2 with wind speeds of 111-135 miles an hour.  Adding on to the already deadly tornado, was hail the size of golf balls that even increased to the size of tennis balls in the Denver area.  This supercell dropped massive hail that caused a lot of damage.  This storm system has been causing severe weather where ever it goes.  It dropped a few tornadoes in Arizona last week that killed two people, and also caused a foot of snow to fall in Wyoming.  It also hammered Tornado Alley with an abundance of severe thunderstorms that dropped hail, cloud to ground lightning, and produced damaging winds.

This storm system is not done as it moves across the U.S. ready to bombard more states with severe weather.  This system is deadly, and everyone in its path should not take it lightly.  More severe weather is predicted to impact Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana today.  The risk is enhanced, which is too steps away from being the highest threat (the next two levels are moderate and high).  So there may be a chance of tornadoes again today, and everyone in the risk area should prepare for the dangers of the incoming storm.