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Wild ride today in Northern Colorado...

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Several small tornadoes today in northern Colorado, just before lunch time. Started with hail and high winds. Hail got to about golf ball size. Then the wind was blowing rain and debris horizontally, in less than 30 seconds the wind reversed direction 180 degrees. I was in Windsor, that took a fairly direct hit on the eastern edge of the town. Luckily I was able to get my TR8 into the shop and out of the weather.

Helped the shop owner take his truck and trailer and check on his house 5 miles east of Windsor. Now we are stuck here since emergency services don't want people coming back into the area until they get all the emergency service needs taken car of. I'll check in with you all later. Have to go look for Toto now.
 
GEEZ! Keep yer head down, Shawn!!!
 
Glad you're still on the ground. Hope you and yours are all okay.
 
Hey Shawn -

Glad to hear you (and the shop owner) are OK. I've been fielding calls all afternoon from my and my wife's families (all back on the east coast) who saw on CNN/MSNBC/ect. that tornadoes touched down north of Denver, and that was enough for them.
Called all of my friends up that way, and everyone is fine. Sending my best thoughts to all those who were affected.
 
Reports are calling it an EF3. Actually, they are waffling between officially calling it an EF2-EF3 though they are reporting winds in the 150mph range. Which places it directly in the upper end of the EF range. There ended up being six tornadoes in northern Colorado from this system.

The shop I was at was directly in the path but it came out okay. Damage on all points of the compass around it though. Several downed old growth trees, massive power outage , gas leaks, hail and wind damage all over the place.

My TR8 is still there in the shop. With no power we couldn't get the doors opened. I'll be back there tomorrow helping clean up around the shop and what not so I'll get it tomorrow. Some of the cars there were scheduled to be picked up today. Our local club is planning a drive over Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park on Saturday. (Memorial Day weekend is the traditional opening of the road. This system also caused some real nasty winter weather in the high country though so the road might not be open.) So tomorrow we will open the doors manually if we have to to get those cars out.

It was eerie though. Just before the tornado arrived, the hail stopped, then the wind picked up with driving rain and those super high winds. We were watching small debris fly down the street on the west side of the shop. Then, like someone flipped a switch, the wind changed direction 180 degrees without changing intensity. At that point, we also heard the "roar". This is also when we retreated to the sturdiest part of the shop. Five minutes later the wind was gone and the skies were blue. Reminded me of a few tornadoes I weathered in my younger years.
 
Glad you're OK Shawn.
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Thanks everyone. Sounds like there was a few Tornadoes across the country yesterday. It was very eerie watching cell after cell develop throughout the afternoon. The radar images were very interesting to watch. Some cells developed in about fifteen minutes where there was nothing before.

Strangest part was that earlier that morning, most locals myself included, could have been heard commenting on how "weird" the air felt. The day before touched 90 degrees while yesterday morning was 60 degrees with about 90% humidity. That level of humidity is very weird in Colorado. Tornadoes are not uncommon in Colorado, but they usually develop much later in the afternoon and on much warmer days. It was still below 70 degrees when the majority of these twisters developed.
 
As a former Ft. Collins resident for 21 years, I can vouch for the fact that they have some mighty bizarre weather down there. Glad everything is turned out OK for you.
 
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