The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch through 10 p.m. Thursday, covering much of southeast Colorado including El Paso County and Pueblo County.

Tornadoes, hail up to 2 inches in diameter and wind gusts up to 70 mph are all possible from the storm system, warned Weather Service meteorologists.

According to the Weather Service, a “watch” for extreme weather is issued hours before a storm when all the ingredients for extreme weather could possibly converge. A weather “warning” is issued when all the ingredients for extreme weather have converged.

Other weather alerts were issued Thursday for many parts of eastern Colorado.

The Colorado Springs Airport flight status page showed 15 delayed arrivals and eight delayed departures as of 5 p.m, many of them that connected to or from Denver International Airport. Colorado Springs showed 28 delays and four cancellations on Flightaware as of 6 p.m.

According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, Denver International Airport was experiencing arrival delays for airborne aircraft of at least 30 minutes and increasing, with all inbound flights behind delayed an average of an hour and 20 minutes. DIA showed nearly 900 overall delayed flights as of 6 p.m.

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