Rain choked areas of the Eastern Plains tonight, while the mountains waited on unseasonable snowfall.
Heavy thunderstorms this afternon had Morgan County officials battling flooding this evening, with water over roadways, inundating fields and overflowing irrigation ditches from Fort Morgan to Brush, according to the National Weather Service office in Boulder.
A rain gauge showed about 5 inches of rainfall near Fort Morgan, but water was pooled as deep as two feet on some roadways, officials said. South and central Weld County also is under flash flood warnings this evening.
Earlier in the evening the National Weather Service had tornado warnings and wateches for portions of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties as well as Denver.
Outside the metro area, the watch includes the Eastern Plains counties of Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and Yuma.
A tornado was reported about 3 p.m. today in northeast Colorado south of Yuma, but no injuries or property damage were resulted as the storm touched down in an open prairie for about two minutes, according to the Weather Service.
Up to six inches of snow could fall in the mountains about 9,000 feet from a strong storm system developing over the western United States’ Great Basin pushes into the state.
Lower elevations could see up to two inches by morning.
Thursday in Denver will be cool, with a high of about 57 degrees, and thunderstorms should develop in the afternoon, the weather service said.
The weather should rebound Friday, with Denver’s high temperature climbing to about 76 degrees under sunny skies, which should last through the weekend, according to forecasters.
