We had a blizzard last night into this morning. Monarch Ski Area got so much snow, one of the chairlifts was buried and had to be dug out.
This storm is moving east and will seriously affect people in its path.
How a Hoosier tornado begins
A disturbance comes over the Sierra, Cascades, and Rockies from the Pacific Ocean. They suck it dry and weak. Once past Pikes Peak, the disturbance reforms. Just east of the peak, a little cloud forms in the "calm" of the disturbance. See above.
Within an hour it magnifies into a regional storm covering the entire county and maybe more.
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The peak itself is wrapped in a blizzard. Once east of the peak, no landforms exist to alter or interfere, so the storm intensifies and builds, going east. Tornado alley meteorologists call this a Colorado low. Somewhere east, this time of year, it likely becomes tornadic. It may move southeast into Oklahoma and Texas. Or move due east into Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Or it may move northeast into Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin amd Minnesota. Early in the season these tornadic storms move southeast. Later they go due east, and in mid summer they flow northeast.
Two hours later it was this:
Tomorrow and Wed will be fearsome days somewhere out in tornado alley.
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