USA: PARTS OF COLORADO SPRINGS BURIED UNDER SEVERAL FEET OF HAIL DURING A FREAK WINTRY THUNDERSTORM

Record ID: 584681

  • Title: USA: PARTS OF COLORADO SPRINGS BURIED UNDER SEVERAL FEET OF HAIL DURING A FREAK WINTRY THUNDERSTORM
  • Date: 3rd September 1994
  • Summary: COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 3, 1994) 1. GV: BULLDOZER PUSHING ICE OFF A HIGHWAY 0.03 2. GV: CAR PACKED IN ICE 0.07 3. MCU: UNIDENTIFIED DRIVER SAYS AT FIRST HIS CAR BEGAN TO FLOAT, LATER IT SANK AND WATER STARTED TO GUSH THROUGH THE DOORS (ENGLISH). 0.14 4. SLV: BULLDOZER SCOOPS UP SNOW 0.18 5. SV: CARS EMBEDDED IN ICE 0.21 6. GV: ICE FLOW ON HIGHWAY RESEMBLING A GLACIER 0.23 7. CU: UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAYING THE SCENE RESEMBLES ALASKA (ENGLISH) 0.25 8. GV: LARGE CLUSTERS OF ICE. 0.27 9. SV: CARS EMBEDDED IN AND SURROUNDED BY ICE (3 SHOTS) 0.34 10. GV: CARS HALTED ON HIGHWAY 0.37 11. MCU: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING HOW STRANGE THE SITUATION IS SINCE THERE ARE CARS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, AND PEOPLE WONDERING HOW SAFE IT IS TO BE IN THE AREA (ENGLISH). 0.40 12. GV: FIRECREWS AT ROAD INTERSECTION IN HEAVY RAIN 0.46 13. SLV: FIREMEN IN RAIN 0.50 14. GV: FIREMEN CARRY WOMAN FROM HER STALLED CAR IN FLOOD WATER 0.54 15. GV: ICE BLOCKING HIGHWAY 1.02 16 SLV: UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WITH CAMERA SAYS " I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT AND I PROBABLY WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING LIKE IT AGAIN." 1.10 (kp/mvb/CR/pc) Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 18th September 1994 13:00
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  • Location: COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, UNITED STATES
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA5KWQ055Z8VMSIMJRORZHK6KZN
  • Story Text: Parts of Colorado Springs in the United States (U.S.) were buried under several feet (metres) of hail during a freak wintry thunderstorm lasting several hours on Saturday (September 3).

    Meteorologists said more than four inches (10 centimetres) of rain fell on the city in half an hour. Later, when conditions cooled, the rain turned to hail and caused five feet (1.52 metres) of ice to form in the streets of the city.

    Fifteen cars were cocooned in highway iceflows which resembled glaciers. Six people were dug out of their cars which had become embedded in the ice. Firecrews rescued several people from vehicles which had stalled in flash floods.

    The temperature in Colorado Springs dipped to 65 Fahrenheit (18 Celcius) during the thunderstorm. Normal temperatures for Colorado Springs in early September range from 51 Fahrenheit (10 Celcius) to 77 Fahrenheit (25 Celcius).

    But weather forecasters said the freak hail was not only the result of lower than normal temperatures. The hail was also precipitated by very high-based storm cells which moved down from the Rocky mountains, they said.


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