Nearly 100 reports of severe weather Thursday kick off four-day stretch of storms

Name: Landspout spotted in northeast Colorado
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Description: Ahead of the eruption of severe storms on Thursday, a landspout was spotted developing in northeast Colorado, outside of the town of Akron.

There were nearly 100 severe weather reports Thursday night including several for golf-ball-sized hail, gusts over 60 mph and even a handful of tornadoes.

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Landspout tornado spotted in Colorado while golf-ball size hail strikes Kansas

There were nearly 100 severe weather reports Thursday night including several for golf-ball-sized hail, gusts over 60 mph and even a handful of tornadoes.

AKRON, Colo. — A multiday severe weather threat across much of the nation’s heartland kicked off on Thursday with reports of massive hail and a few tornado reports.

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center received nearly 100 reports of severe weather, including baseball-sized hail that damaged windows in Brewster, Kansas.

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One of the first sightings of extreme weather on Thursday happened in northeast Colorado.

Storm chasers captured video of a landspout outside the town Akron, which is about 60 miles west of the Colorado-Nebraska border.

Landspout spotted in northeast Colorado

Ahead of the eruption of severe storms on Thursday, a landspout was spotted developing in northeast Colorado, outside of the town of Akron.

At least one other tornado was spotted in Cheyenne County, Kansas, but due to the rural nature of both instances of twisters, there were no immediate reports of damage.

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Some thunderstorms also brought blistering wind gusts. A thunderstorm gust reached 70 mph near Sharon Springs, Kansas, while gusts reached 67 mph in Spur, Texas and 63 mph in Cottonwood, South Dakota and Shawnee, Oklahoma.