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\JUZ3ld The Denver Poot/Monday. May 18.,1987 I Storms spawn hail, floods, funnel clouds By D. Weyermann Den__ POSl Slaft Wrltef A series of severe lhunderslorms swept through Colorado on Sunday. bringing hail. a tornado. flooding and power outages. No serious damage was report. ed. A tornado touched down seven miles southeast of Burlington in Kit Carson County at about 6:30 p.m., the National Weather Service said. Two funnel clouds were reported bt>lwl:'en 3 and 3:30 p.m. One was spotted 2 miles northeast of Parker and the olher several miles south- west of Aurora. Many areas also reported pea- sized hail, but areas surrounding CasUe Rock were bombarded with hail lhree-quarters of an inch in di. ameter, the Weather Scn.ice said. Rain fell heaviest between Cas- lie Rock and Colorado Spring..<;, with Colorado Springs receiving 0.)8 inches. Denver received 0.16 inches. and there was heavy flooding in Aurora at South Parker Road and East Quincy Avenue. near Cherry Creek Reservoir. Aurora police reported water levels as high as 4 feet at Parker and Quincy and said there were un- conhrmed reports of several smaD There was heavy flooding in Aurora on South Parker Road. cars being washed from their parking spaces. Barricades were erected in the area. Su lIawk, spokeswoman for the Public Sen.;ce Co., said [he stonn al~ caused scaltered power out- ages throughout the metro area. Some residents. she said. were without power for 25 to 30 minutes. Trafhc SIgnals also Wl're affect. ed. lIawk said. causing traffic jams in some areas. In Wyoming. torrt>nlial down- pours in Cheyenne dampened the ~1ale's ('{'lebralion of its Capitol's l00th birthday as thousands of pic. nickers scampered for shelter dur- . ing a bison barbecue. About 1,000 pounds of bison had been prepared for the event., which commemorated the birthday of the statehouse. built three years be- fore Wyoming became a state. There were reporls of some Ooodmg in Cheyenne.. but officials said it was not serious.