{"id":1601,"date":"2009-05-22T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2009-05-22T14:35:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T21:35:01","slug":"windsor-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-ef3-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/windsor-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-ef3-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor marks one year anniversary of EF3 tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The town of Windsor, Colorado was forever changed when an EF3 tornado ripped through it one year ago today. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 22, 2008 was like most any spring day along the Colorado Front Range.\u00a0 The morning started out a bit warmer than usual and it was more humid but there was nothing to indicate the havoc that was soon to be visited upon Windsor, Colorado.<\/p>\n

As the morning wore on, high above the plains the jet stream was moving at 120 mph and temperatures were warming quickly.\u00a0 From Denver looking north huge clouds began to build miles into the sky \u2013 an ominous sign of what was to come.\u00a0 A supercell thunderstorm, one more like what you expect to see in Oklahoma, was forming quickly.<\/p>\n

At 11:30am the warnings were going out from the National Weather Service.\u00a0 This was not your typical thunderstorm.\u00a0 Soon a Gilcrest police officer radioed, \u201cWe have a tornado on the ground!\u201d<\/p>\n

Three tornadoes touched down that morning in northern Colorado but one stands out.\u00a0 The supercell that was near Windsor was growing in size and the twister that developed was massive \u2013 \u00be of a mile wide.\u00a0 Rated by the National Weather Service as an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with winds in excess of 136 mph, what was described as a \u201cbig, black monster” would tear a path 35 miles long.<\/p>\n

For the rest of this story including video and a photo slideshow, please visit Examiner.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 22, 2008 was like most any spring day along the Colorado Front Range.\u00a0 The morning started out a bit warmer than usual and it was more humid but there was nothing to indicate the havoc that was soon to be visited upon Windsor, Colorado. As the morning wore on, high above the plains the … Continue reading Windsor marks one year anniversary of EF3 tornado<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}