One tornado that wreaked havoc in northeastern Colorado’s Yuma County this week unleashed wind at speeds as fast as 150 miles per hour along a six-mile path of destruction, according to preliminary results of a National Weather Service damage survey.
And, based on the damage, NWS meteorologists rated the tornado “EF-3” or “strong.”
“We don’t receive many tornadoes of that intensity out here,” NWS meteorologist Jesse Lundquist said from his base in Goodland, Kansas. “Yuma was very lucky that this tornado made a right turn to a more southerly direction,” Lundquist said. Its path began at the town of Hyde, about 4.7 miles west of Yuma, and it moved to a point a mile southwest of Yuma, churning up debris as it carved into soil. The tornado remained south of Yuma. It ripped the roof off a house were people were huddled inside.
The NWS surveyors, based in Goodland, Kansas, were analyzing data to determine exactly when the tornado hit. Two other tornadoes touched down south of Yuma later on Tuesday, Lundquist said.In Yuma, municipal officials said they saw two tornadoes.
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