AccuWeather Meteorologist Tony Laubach tracked a dangerous supercell across southeast Colorado for over 100 miles as it unleashed large hail and damaging winds.
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00:00 It was a hail of an afternoon for folks in Colorado Springs as several rounds of large
00:08 hail pummeled the city.
00:10 Hail approaching golf ball size sent motorists looking for cover at this gas station southeast
00:14 of downtown.
00:15 And further out east, it wasn't so much the size, but the depth as several inches of hail
00:19 covered this highway south of Calhan.
00:25 I tracked this storm for several hours and for over 100 miles across southeast Colorado,
00:30 it filling the sky with dark, ominous clouds as it trudged east-southeast toward the Highway
00:34 50 corridor where it bared down on the city of Los Animas.
00:42 Blinding rain mixed with occasional hailstones were driven by 70 mile per hour winds.
00:47 Limbs from trees came down on the road as the storm became tornadic.
00:51 Winds in town changed direction as the storm moved off to the southeast.
00:54 But in its wake, a mess.
00:59 Flooded streets slowed some vehicles while others plowed through with reckless abandon.
01:03 Large trees came down all over town, this one landing on a truck, and large limbs landed
01:07 on other uncovered vehicles while some required some maneuvering to get around.
01:14 As the storm moved further to the southeast, a rather peaceful end to a very stormy day
01:18 as double rainbow arched across the skies and mammatus floated harmlessly overhead.
01:24 For AccuWeather, I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.
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