<div id="subtitle">At least 5 tornadoes touch down in stormy Colorado, 1 man injured trying to take picture</div><div><p>At least five tornadoes touched down in Colorado on Sunday, with one overturning benches and a car outside a mall in a Denver suburb and injuring a man who tried to take pictures of a twister.</p><p>The man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, said Battalion Chief Mark Turley of the Aurora Fire Department. Turley said medical privacy laws kept him from releasing further details.</p><p>Firefighters reported moderate damage and gas leaks at the Southlands Mall, which was forced to close.</p><p>The National Weather Service said the tornado that damaged the mall touched down south of Buckley Air Force Base just before 2 p.m. and may have been on the ground for about 30 minutes, taking an 8- to 10-mile path across southeast Aurora.</p><p>Heating, ventilation and air conditioning units on the mall roof were damaged. Mall spokeswoman Joyce Rocha-Brown said damage was being assessed and no decision had been made on when the building might reopen.</p><p>Julie Patterson, 36, could see the tornado from the back deck of her house in Aurora.</p><p>"You could see the debris flying in the funnel cloud," she said.</p><p>Many spots in the Denver area also were pelted with hail as big as baseballs. The Weather Service received reports of hail as big as 3 inches in Arapahoe County, meteorologist Robert Koopmeiners said.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=52157361&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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