Wacky Weather: 2nd Highest Tornado

For your first Wacky Weather, I am going to take you back to June of this year, on Mount Evans in Colorado as tornado touched down. Because a tornado touched down on top of Mount Evans, which is about 11,900 ft in elevation, it is estimated to be the 2nd highest tornado to touch down. The highest tornado ever recorded was in California over Rockwell Pass in 2004.

Above is a picture taken by Josh Deere, at the top of Mount Evans.

Mountain tornadoes are such a rarity because for one, people aren't always up there to see the tornado. Secondly, the terrain makes it hard for the atmosphere to have a large-scale weather system form. However, most importantly in high elevations there is less instability in the atmosphere, which is very important to produce tornadoes.

If we didn't have weird weather, then what would the Weather Channel report on. And more importantly what would I write about on Wednesday's? Wacky weather is why I chose meteorology in the first place, keeps me on my toes!

Resources:
ouramazingplanet.com