Storm chaser captures tornado forming live on AccuWeather

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AccuWeather's Tony Laubach was reporting during a live broadcast in Otis, Colorado, on Aug. 8, when a tornado emerged from a dusty storm on a path toward Yuma.

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00:00 live in Otis, Colorado, where the storms are brewing.

00:02 Tony, tell us what you're seeing.

00:04 - We're past brew right now, Michelle.

00:07 We've got a full-on tornado on the ground here.

00:09 This is gonna be just to the northwest of Yuma, Colorado.

00:13 It's a little bit buried in the dust in there,

00:15 but you can see the condensation funnel.

00:18 It's coming out, it's emerging here.

00:20 This has been an ongoing tornado

00:21 for the better part of the last 10 minutes.

00:23 You can really start to see it emerge out of the dust.

00:25 This has been a very dusty storm.

00:27 It's likely produced several smaller tornadoes,

00:30 but this one here is certainly

00:31 the biggest, most pronounced we've seen.

00:33 Now it's gonna come out

00:35 and show its full force here for everybody.

00:36 But yeah, this is going on right now,

00:38 right in front of us here.

00:40 We're gonna show you here.

00:41 I'm gonna kind of get out in front here

00:42 and kind of show you what we're looking at.

00:44 That is one of the tornadoes.

00:46 There's actually a second circulation

00:48 right off in the back corner here.

00:49 So we've actually got two areas of circulation.

00:52 One is gonna be this guy right here.

00:53 It looks like it's starting to rope out a little bit here.

00:56 We're starting to see that funnel dissipate.

00:57 You can kind of see just the leftover dust swirl of that.

01:01 So we're starting to lose that,

01:02 but really seeing the rope out,

01:03 kind of the thin funnel coming back down right now.

01:06 Got a little bit of rain coming in.

01:07 This is the RFD, but right now this storm,

01:09 this is off to my north right now, northwest.

01:12 This is gonna pass just to my north as well.

01:15 But again, I think it is roping out.

01:16 We're starting to lose the form

01:19 that this tornado actually had here moments ago,

01:21 but we got a good view of it there.

01:23 Another area of rotation back in here.

01:24 I'm gonna get back in the car.

01:26 Now the front of the van is starting to rope out

01:27 a little bit.

01:29 Ah, excuse me.

01:30 We'll get the wipers on for you here, folks.

01:32 But yeah, this has been an ongoing situation.

01:34 We've been kind of tracking this storm

01:35 for the better part of the last couple of hours,

01:37 but this continues to do its thing.

01:40 We got, in fact, now you got another

01:42 coming back down once again.

01:43 Yeah, this is gonna be a tornadic storm

01:45 we're gonna be tracking.

01:46 This storm is gonna be moving east, southeast.

01:48 Folks in Yuma, Colorado,

01:50 definitely wanna be taking your tornado precautions

01:53 right now.

01:53 Obviously, as you can see,

01:54 we've got a live tornado on the ground.

01:56 This looks like it's gonna pass

01:57 very close to the city of Yuma.

02:00 This is moving east, southeast fairly slowly.

02:03 What a sight to behold here for folks, though.

02:06 This is right now out in open country.

02:08 Hasn't hit anything to this point,

02:10 but we are tracking this storm, this tornado right now.

02:13 We're gonna continue to track this here

02:15 for the better part of the evening.

02:16 So certainly stay with us here on the AccuWeather Network.

02:19 We've got tornadoes in progress in Eastern Colorado.

02:23 Tony, exactly, that's a great shot of that.

02:26 And you can see the warning right here.

02:27 If you're just joining us,

02:28 we got a tornado warning in Yuma.

02:30 This is gonna expire at 5.30 p.m.

02:32 It's moving southeast.

02:33 Tony just got a really good shot of that.

02:36 But I've been eyeing this here,

02:37 and you can see it on the radar.

02:39 I mean, we've got a very well-defined hook echo.

02:42 Do you see this notching right near the Y in Yuma?

02:45 That's your evidence of that tornado there.

02:48 And then I looked on the radar, the velocity scan,

02:50 and you had that couple where you have the green

02:52 and the red next to each other.

02:54 So well-defined tornado.

02:55 And then the ground truth with Tony Loback's video,

02:58 seeing that tornado there exactly.

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