Strong winds up to 65 mph will also buffet eastern Colorado, forecasters said. Non-tornado winds above 50 mph are classified as “damaging” by NWS meteorologists.

It will be another warmer-than-normal day across the state Wednesday afternoon, but the active weather will bring a risk of severe weather for Eastern Colorado later in the day.

Our first round of severe thunderstorms this spring rumbled over the eastern plains Wednesday afternoon and evening – some of those storms creating picturesque views in the Pikes Peak Region. We saw a fairly significant supercell that passed along the southern fringe of the Palmer Divide,