KUSA 9News At 10pm February 20, 2016
Of the data, the strongest gust ever seen in our state. Heres how it happened. Winds were blowing 50 to gusts up to 98. A weather station reported a thunderstorm that spiked those gusts to 148. That is at a weather station just above 12,000 feet. Another station 700 feet below had winds of just 32 Miles Per Hour. A 116 mile per hour difference. The Weather Service Still Believes that the record was for real. That was just enough to pass the previous mark of 147 Miles Per Hour in january of 1971. Those are what you typically find in a category 4 hurricane. Some of you have asked us about the lo...