19 June 2013
Tornado Over Denver Airport Today
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Taken by Mike Sellers
..and from Meteorologist Nate Johnson, the view from the terminal Doppler Radar at DIA. The radar was so close to the tornado you could see the precipitation wrapping around the vortex!:
My friend Bob Henson at NCAR in Boulder points out that 40% of all Colorado tornadoes are in June. Animated GIG, click to see it.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.