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On Thursday, the National Weather Service in Miami said there’s a marginal risk for isolated strong to severe storms for the eastern half of South Florida Thursday and Friday afternoons between 2 and 10 p.m. The risk level was 1 on a 5 scale, meaning the severe storms would be isolated. As the scale climbs the area of storm coverage expands.
Following tornadic storms Sunday in Denver, the National Weather Service will conduct storm surveys to determine their intensity and path length. The Enhanced Fujita scale is used to rate tornadoes.
People often think of mountains when they think of Colorado, but the Centennial State isn’t all ski slopes — much of the state looks more like Kansas, and the severe weather reflects that.
Tornadoes, hail, heavy downpours, 75 mile-per-hour winds were all possible Thursday night -- but that's only if storms develop, and it's a "big if."