00:00Well, the first day of June marks the back third of the severe weather season kicking off.
00:04And with that month of June here, we start to see the geographical shift
00:08in where we really start to see the severe weather this time of year.
00:11And I'm standing in one of those places here in Bennett, Colorado, east of Denver,
00:15where we start to really see things ramp up for us here in the state where hail is the big
00:20concern.
00:21We are the hail capital of the world after all.
00:22And that is going to be a threat with us today as storms that fire off the foothills.
00:26We'll present that opportunity not only for the eastern plains,
00:30but folks in the Denver metro area could see hail in Fort Collins.
00:33Greeley in the Denver area could see some damaging hail, maybe even two inches plus in some of the early
00:39storms.
00:40Damaging winds also going to be a threat, especially as we move a little bit further east away from the
00:44front range.
00:44Can't rule out an isolated tornado, but we are kind of limited on the moisture that we typically would see
00:50this time of year,
00:51which is otherwise mitigating what could be a more significant tornado threat,
00:54but can't rule out one or two brief tornadoes early on that think the primary threats today are going to
00:59be damaging wind and large hail.
01:01We do see the storm chances here in Colorado through the week,
01:05although a little bit lesser in terms of the severity as we go through the next couple of days,
01:09but certainly can't rule out isolated severe storm or two as we go into the rest of this week here.
01:14June, again, the most active month for severe weather in Colorado,
01:17and we are going to start the month on the first day of the month with a big severe weather
01:21threat,
01:21hail and damaging winds across the state.
01:23Reporting from Bennett, Colorado for AccuWeather, I'm meteorologist Tony Laubach.
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