MORGAN COUNTY, Colo. – Storm trackers across social media on Sunday afternoon shared videos of a brief landspout tornado which touched down in a portion of Morgan County.
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Boulder issued a tornado warning for the storm in the 3 p.m. hour for a cell a few miles south of Hillrose.
The NWS later reported: At 352 PM MDT, a confirmed tornado was located 6 miles south of Hillrose, or 13 miles east of Fort Morgan, moving northwest at 20 mph," in an alert..
Susan Crist was driving on I-76 when she caught sight of a tornado. She shared her photo of the tornado near Brush, Colorado with Denver7.
She saw the swirling clouds before spotting the tornado.
"I happened to look in front of me, and wham, right in front of me, there was a tornado that came down and touched on the right side of the highway in the field," Crist told Denver7. "I pulled the car over because had I kept going, I could tell it was crossing the highways, and I would have been right in it."
Live tornado on our stream east of brush on Hwy 6 and MCR U. Crossed in front of the team! #cowx pic.twitter.com/r1NDtwxUjj
— Big Dawg NE CO Storm Chasers (@BigDawgWx) July 6, 2025
Multiple users on social media shared clips of the tornado. There were no immediate reports of damage.
The NWS forecasters said there were “multiple reports from spotters and chasers with video showing a landspout tornado lasting 5 min in duration."
Great video at approximately 1550 from our team looking east from Brush. #cowx pic.twitter.com/0Rcxbg4TZn
— Big Dawg NE CO Storm Chasers (@BigDawgWx) July 6, 2025
The severe weather threat returns again Monday with isolated tornadoes again a threat, particularly on Colorado's northeastern Plains.
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