Storms Bring Tornadoes to Colorado, Icy Roads to Arizona

A series of tornadoes swept across eastern Colorado, causing several minor injuries and damaging motorhomes and buildings. Another spring storm brought deadly driving conditions to northern Arizona.

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 07, 2016, at 01:00 AM EDT shows a cutoff low over California that is producing widespread showers and clouds. This storm slowly moving eastward over the Rockies. It associated fronts are stretching into the Northern Plains, where thunderstorms are developing along it. The storm is developing in between two high pressure systems that is creating clear skies and quite weather for the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. NOAA/Weather Underground via AP

A series of tornadoes swept across eastern Colorado Saturday, causing several minor injuries and damaging motorhomes and buildings. Another spring storm brought deadly driving conditions to northern Arizona.

The National Weather Service said at least four tornadoes hit in Yuma County, about 100 miles east of Denver, near Colorado’s borders with Nebraska and Kansas.

One of those twisters struck just north of the town of Wray about 6 p.m. MDT, and left five people with minor injuries, according to NWS Science and Operations officer Jeremy Martin.

Speaking in a telephone interview from his office in Goodland, Kan., Martin said that tornado also damaged some buildings and other structures.

Storm chasers reported that it traveled for about 10 miles on the ground.

“We had at least four tornadoes in Yuma,” Martin told The Associated Press. “We’re still trying to get an exact number.

He said that a survey team will travel to the area after daylight Sunday to get a better assessment of the storm and its damage.

There were no immediate reports of injury or damage from the other three confirmed tornadoes in the area.

Earlier in the day, officials said a tornado in Morgan County damaged about a dozen motorhomes and caused some minor injuries.

Debris lies scattered on the ground after a tornado was reported in Weld County outside Wiggins, Colo., on May 7, 2016. Spring storms menaced parts of the West on Saturday, bringing hail and a tornado sighting in Colorado and deadly driving conditions in Arizona. Kristen Skovira/KMGH-Channel 7 via AP