tornado hit something that exploded with fire. It's most likely the start of the Hendersonville-Gallatin tornado, before Hendersonville near I-65 in the Nashville metro area.
It's 60 degrees in December, before noon. Of course the cold front will be coming soon, but we may be still in the 50's up to 7:00PM. Models say winds are 47kt at 925mb. Toledo has measured max wind gusts to 33knots/38mph
I think there are just a few buildings and the weather station on Colorado Mines Peak, which might be 500ft above the Berthoud Pass parking lot and a few hundred feet east of it. It seems like this would be difficult to see from all angles. And how do they shovel snow at these things?
this what I posted on Great Lakes/Ohio Valley a couple of days ago. It's after I was explaining how I made a snowball in June 2022 at Cameron Pass before I left.
The models kind of suck. Look back at the 18z GFS from Monday, hour 126-132, high snow rates near Chicago.. then.. now. Even the ECMWF from 00z Tuesday (almost the same data) had snow for Chicago at 132hr.