This is something you don't see everyday amongst the Rocky Mountains in Colorado: a tornado.
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Here's one view from the town of Fairplay, near the burning in Park County.
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According to the
National Weather Service in Boulder, this is only the 6th confirmed tornado in western Park County as of 1950, when records began.
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