“DANGEROUS STORM INCOMING - PLEASE SEEK SHELTER,” the venue told staff.ĩ:27 p.m. Two- to three-inch hail was pounding down two miles to the west.ĩ:15 p.m. Skyview notified base operations: “Very dangerous storm moving quick.” It was 5-10 minutes out from the venue. Please seek shelter.” A weather alert appeared on the venue screen.ĩ:14 p.m. Seek Shelter.”ĩ:09: Base operations notified the venue: “Weather delay. Skyview announced there was a risk again.ĩ:01: Argus announced “Attention Red Rocks - lightning warning. Lightning struck five miles to the north. Workers came to the Argus check-in to pick up more trash.Ĩ:58 p.m. Base operations declared an “All Clear.” The concert resumed.Ĩ:43 p.m. Skyview declared “All Clear.” The last lightning strike was four miles from the venue, and the storm was moving away.Ĩ:31 p.m. Argus opened the Rock Room, a 200-seat event center.Ĩ:30 p.m. Base operations declared a weather delay and told patrons to seek shelter.Ĩ:21 p.m. Denver Police Department ran out of soap. Workers arrived to clean up the mess.Ĩ:03 p.m. Somebody spilled nachos on the south stairs at Row 7. 5,974 tickets were scanned, and the venue was at 75% capacity.Ĩ p.m. Despite the lightning, guests continued to arrive. Skyview declared a 60- to 90-minute lightning risk.ħ:55 p.m. Lightning struck 3.5 miles northwest of the venue. Skyview warned: “Not close enough for delay, but *CAUTION*” The storm was moving very slowly.ħ:53 p.m. Lightning struck six miles to the northwest of the venue. Medics showed up to row 64, looking for the “situation.”ħ:30 p.m. A patron was “not doing well” in Row 62, outside the north stairs.ħ:22 p.m. A total of 5,000 tickets had been scanned, and the venue was 62% full.ħ:18 p.m. Somebody was climbing rocks near the east stairs of the venue, and security showed up to handle it.ħ:08 p.m. The bus parking lot had too much trash, and facilities staff drove over to remove it.ġ:11 p.m. Staff set up the base operation center.ġ0:31 a.m. So we filed an open records request for the phone logs at the Red Rocks base operations center.Ĩ a.m. The venue reevaluated its safety policies in the wake of the storm.īut Denverite wanted to know what happened behind the scenes that night. Some were taken to the hospital.Ĭoncertgoers posted dramatic videos on social media of the chaos. They stumbled back from the venue to pummeled cars, only to be stuck in traffic, looking through broken windshields. People broke bones, suffered head injuries and tripped over hail. Remember when hail pounded Red Rocks concertgoers during the Wednesday, June 21 concert by Louis Tomlinson (formerly of the pop group One Direction)?Īttendees squeezed into limited shelter from the storms.
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