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| Navajo Nations Police Department today post this photo of a large tornado in (checks notes) remote extreme southeast Utah. |
An often large tornado spent at least an hour intermittently on the ground around Montezuma Creek in extreme southeast Utah.
That's very close to the Four Corners, where the borders of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet.
The tornado and rotating supercell thunderstorm was still at it around 2 p.m. local time ( 4 p.m. Eastern). It appeared to be crossing the state line and heading into extreme southwest Colorado
The Navajo Nation Police Department said so far, three homes had been damaged but there were no injuries.
Police were warning people to say off the roads and to see shelter. The Utah Highway Patrol and San Juan County Sheriff's were en route to the area to help,
Tornadoes are fairly rare in Utah, as the state averages about two or three per year. However, this part of Utah almost never sees tornadoes. Especially ones as large as this one, and those that last a long time like this twister has.
San Juan County, where today's tornado hit, also had one back on July 12, said Matthew Cappucci of MyRadar Weather Radar.
The area where the tornado hit was only under a marginal risk of severe thunderstorms, a low level alert in which only isolated instances of severe storms were forecast. Tornadoes were not predicted.
Severe thunderstorms have been expected further south in New Mexico.
An upper level low centered near the storms apparently created enough spin in the atmosphere to support supercells and the tornado.
The tornado and severe weather hit on what has been an otherwise relatively uneventful weather day in the United States.
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