{"id":1069,"date":"2009-01-01T07:36:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:16:55","slug":"top-weather-story-of-2008-the-windsor-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/top-weather-story-of-2008-the-windsor-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Top weather story of 2008 – The Windsor tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This amazing image of the Windsor tornado was taken from a backyard webcam. Image courtesy MyWindsorWeather.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 22, 2008 started like most other spring days in Colorado.\u00a0 That Thursday morning had dawned with relatively mild temperatures and a touch of humidity in the air.\u00a0 That moisture in the air was a warning sign as moist air from the Gulf of Mexico was entering the state and a signal of the potential for severe storms.\u00a0 No one knew though just what was in store for a small town in northeastern Colorado.<\/p>\n

As temperatures rose in the morning, the moist air near the ground mixed with fast moving dry air aloft and created conditions ideal for supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes.\u00a0 Hail began to fall around 11:20am near Platteville, a harbinger of things to come.\u00a0 As the weather situation became much more excited and confused, reports of a twister on the ground near Gilcrest at 11:29 rolled in.<\/p>\n