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A Significant Spring Storm Impacting the Central U.S. This Week

A significant late-season winter storm will bring an expanding area of heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain to the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Further south, severe thunderstorms are expected from the southern Plains into the southern Great Lakes. A multi-day excessive rain and flooding event will impact the Ozarks into the Ohio Valley through Saturday. Read More >

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Mid-afternoon on August 16th a strong supercell thunderstorm, which had already caused extensive crop damage in southern Saguache County, spawned a tornado northeast of Alamosa.  The tornado was witnessed by many, and occurred around 8 miles east-southeast of Mosca (2 1/2 miles south of San Luis Lake), in a rural area.  The tornado only lasted a few minutes, but, remarkably targeted and destroyed a structure...an unoccupied mobile home. This was an unusually strong supercell for the San Luis Valley.  Crop damage in southern Saguache County totalled at least $42 million.

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Zoomed-Out Location of Tornado

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Zoomed-In Location of Tornado

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