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Last Updated on Saturday, 09 January 2010 18:09 Written by Roger Hill

2004

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August 9th took me and everyone in Colorado by surprise. A strong supercell developed near Agate, east of Denver and tracked slowly southwest over the Palmer Divide. This storm was a prolific hail producer (softballs!) and produced numerous tornadoes. I lost my windshield, headlight, wipers, sat dome and a few other things. It was worth it to me.

Supercell develops near Agate on I 70.	Storm intensifies with golf ball sized hail and rotation is evident in the cloud structure.
First landspout (non-supercell tornado) forms about 7 miles west of Agate under a new updraft.	Second landspout forms and intensifies.
Nice landspout structure!! This tornado caused strong F1 damage.	Tornado gets even stronger as large debris cloud forms!
Tornado dissipates after being on the ground almost 10 minutes.	Supercell has a classic donut structure. Look closely right above the road and you can see a large truncated cone tornado! This was a multivortex tornado with several vortices on the ground.
Rope tornado forms a few minutes later and stays on the ground for 8 minutes.	Beautiful rope tornado continues!
Next I had to battle hail to softball size as you can see it hitting the ground.	Yep, that says it all. This was the least of the damage to my car.