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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo.– It was a precise windy greeting successful Colorado on Thursday arsenic wind gusts blew up dust, closed highways and adjacent knocked implicit semi trucks connected the road.
Video from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office showed aggravated winds picking up and blowing particulate crossed the road arsenic a enactment of cars sat waiting to go.
Thick particulate blocks the presumption of a road successful Colorado during a windstorm.
(Jefferson County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)
The sheriff's bureau said a semi motortruck had been knocked implicit by the precocious winds.
The FOX Forecast Center said upwind gusts arsenic precocious arsenic 81 mph were recorded Thursday greeting astir the time, and successful the country of Highway 93 wherever the incidental happened.
Throughout the morning, upwind gusts remained high, betwixt 60 and 70 mph.
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A semi motortruck blown implicit connected Highway 93 successful Jefferson County, Colorado.
(Jefferson County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)
Another video taken by the sheriff's bureau showed the semi connected its side, pushed disconnected the highway.
Tall writer adjacent to the motortruck was blowing intensely by the gusty winds.
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A photograph showed a 2nd road closure owed to a 2nd semi-truck rollover connected Lookout Mountain.
A semi motortruck blew implicit connected the road astatine Lookout Mountain successful Colorado connected March 12, 2026.
(Jefferson County Sheriff's Office / FOX Weather)
The winds were caused by a clipper strategy delivering a windstorm crossed the Plains and Great Lakes.
As the clipper continues its speedy eastward track, it is creating a wide swath of damaging winds that began Thursday greeting successful the Northern Rockies and High Plains, wherever gusts were measured betwixt 70 and 80 mph.
The FOX Forecast Center said the Cheyenne Regional Airport successful Wyoming recorded a 90 mph upwind gust report, breaking an all-time record.
Winds died down successful the day and remained calm connected Thursday evening.
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