{"id":192,"date":"2008-06-07T17:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2008-06-08T03:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T09:18:05","slug":"windsor-tornado-officially-rated-as-ef3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/severe-weather\/windsor-tornado-officially-rated-as-ef3\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor Tornado Officially Rated as EF3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Weather Service has completed their tornado assessment of the Windsor tornado and determined the twister was rated an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.\u00a0 See below for details and here for a map of the path the twister took<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…UPDATED…
\n<\/span>NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
\n430 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

..WELD COUNTY TORNADO OF MAY 22 2008 RATED AN EF3 TORNADO…<\/p>\n

On Thursday May 22 2008 a wide and powerful tornado swept north northwestward for 34 miles from northeast of platteville in Weld County at 1126 AM MDT to 7 miles east northeast of Fort Collins in Larimer County at 1216pm MDT.\u00a0\u00a0 The National Weather Service tornado damage assessments conducted on Friday May 23rd and Saturday May 24th documented large areas of damage.\u00a0 On the enhanced Fujita scale there were pockets of EF3 damage especially near the Missile Silo Park Campground west of Greeley and to homes and businesses in eastern Windsor.\u00a0 Wind estimates in the heavily damaged areas were as high as 130 to 150 mph.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The tornado was as wide as one mile at times along its path.\u00a0 There was one fatality and 15 to 20 injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 Damage estimates are not finalized, but preliminary numbers from FEMA are 850 homes damage, with nearly 300 homes signficantly damged or destroyed.\u00a0 Privately insured damages total 174 million dollars…and the Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association reported one million dollars of damage to electric transmission facilities.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

One question frequently asked is how unusual was this event.\u00a0 Certainly it was not unusual in time of year (May and June are the peak tornado months in Colorado).\u00a0 It was not unusual in location (more tornadoes are reported in Weld County than any other county).\u00a0 It was slightly earlier in the day than normal, as we usually see tornadoes in the mid afternoon to early evening.\u00a0 The track was longer than most, the tornado was moving fastern than most,\u00a0 and a track moving north northwest is very unsusual.\u00a0 Since 1950 there have been a total of 20 tornadoes of f3 and higher within Colorado.\u00a0 This was the second f3 tornado reported in weld county since 1950.\u00a0\u00a0 On May 15, 1952 an F3 tornado injured 5 people within the county.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

For reference…the Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories:<\/span><\/p>\n

EF0…wind speeds 65 to 85 MPH. <\/span><\/p>\n

EF1…wind speeds 86 to 110 mph.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

EF2…wind speeds 111 to 135 mph.<\/span><\/p>\n

EF3…wind speeds 136 to 165 mph.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

EF4…wind speeds 166 to 200 mph.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

EF5…wind speeds greater than 200 mph.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Weather Service has completed their tornado assessment of the Windsor tornado and determined the twister was rated an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.\u00a0 See below for details and here for a map of the path the twister took.\u00a0 PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…UPDATED… NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 430 PM MDT FRI JUN 6 … Continue reading Windsor Tornado Officially Rated as EF3<\/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":[6,4],"tags":[732,39,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}