Tornadoes and torrential hail slam Colorado

Multiple tornadoes and hail larger than baseballs pounded Colorado's Yuma County on Aug. 8.

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00:00 I'm meteorologist Tony Loback in Yuma, Colorado. Tuesday was a very busy severe

00:04 weather day across the eastern part of the state including near here in Yuma

00:08 and really all of Yuma County is a long track supercell that developed up near

00:12 Sterling early on Tuesday afternoon slowly tracks southeast through the

00:16 county dropping several tornadoes including this very large tornado which

00:20 we aired live on the AccuWeather Network as it was happening this tornado

00:24 touching down just northwest of the city of Yuma fortunately sparing the town as

00:29 the tornado moved just off to the east and south we did see later on that

00:34 evening some telephone poles knocked down crews are busy fixing those and

00:37 some extremely large hail also found south of the city but Yuma itself

00:41 spared any significant issues other than some minor tree damage in town from the

00:46 torrential rain and hail that did come through with that supercell fortunately

00:50 not much in the way of damage reports coming out of Colorado with the

00:53 exception of Yuma most of these tornadoes stayed well away from

00:56 populated areas eastern Colorado very sparsely populated so very good news for

01:01 folks there even avoiding a lot in the way of crops as really it's just a lot

01:05 of ranch land out here so not a whole lot for these tornadoes to affect but

01:09 certainly were quite the sight the storm producing multiple tornadoes including a

01:13 couple of smaller tornadoes before and after the big tornado that came near the

01:17 town of Yuma much quieter weather in store for eastern Colorado and when it

01:21 has been one of the busier seasons we've seen in this state to date reporting for

01:25 AccuWeather in Yuma, Colorado. I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.