Raquel Villanueva

KUSA-TV, Denver

AURORA, Colo. — Aurora Fire Department has confirmed one person was injured after a tornado touched down near Blackstone Country Club in Aurora, Colo., on Sunday.

The injured is the father of a child who was competing in the Rocky Mountain Junior Golf Tournament.

According to the director of Gold League, the man injured was identified as John Leede.

Leede suffered a broken wrist when the golf cart he was in flipped over trying to drive away from the storm.

Paul Cleveland, 16, who was playing in the golf tournament and also was in the golf cart, said they were driving up the 18th hole when the "horrifying" moment happened.

"The tornado hits us, picks us (and) the cart off the ground, then moves us about a foot," said Cleveland.

Cleveland looked down and saw his playing partner's father injured.

"We actually had to lift the golf cart off the side of his head," Cleveland said.

The man was treated at an area hospital and Cleveland said he is doing OK. There were up to 97 kids in the tournament at the time.

An empty construction trailer also flipped over.

Tornado sirens were heard going off in the area just after 1 p.m. Mountain Time.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Denver just before 1 p.m. At 12:49 p.m., the weather service said "a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over southern Aurora, or 17 miles southeast of Denver.

Several tornadoes were reported Sunday, including one in the tiny northeastern Colorado town of Grover and two in Park County. A twister also touched down in a sparsely populated area of southeast Wyoming, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.

In Colorado, a funnel cloud touched down near Fairplay about 65 miles southwest of Denver at about 11 a.m., damaging the roof of a home, Park County spokeswoman Linda Balough said.

"This is amazingly unusual at 10,000 feet, very unusual for it to happen up here," she said.

Another tornado was reported a short time later about 40 miles away, causing "substantial" damage at an RV park, Balough said.

Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin said a trough of low pressure is creating a "large extensive line" of severe weather along the Front Range from southern Colorado to the Wyoming border.

Contributing: The Associated Press