The morning of May 22, 2008 dawned like most in Colorado during the spring with sunny skies and mild temperatures. Soon though Mother Nature began cooking a dangerous concoction of conditions that would spawn a deadly, monstrous tornado in the shadow on the Rocky Mountains.
A fast moving jet stream coupled with quickly rising temperatures and unusually high humidity ripened conditions for what we now simply call the ‘Windsor tornado.’ Soon after 11:00am that morning a monstrous supercell thunderstorm could be seen erupting to the north of the Denver area.
Tornado warnings were soon issued by the National Weather Service and a Gilcrest police officer radioed, “We have a tornado on the ground!”
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