Caught in the Windsor Tornado

I was microwaving my lunch at about 11:30 am at Kodak in Windsor when the hail started. Everyone was watching out the windows as it went from pea sized to golf balls to baseball sized. Then it stopped and they announced a tornado warning. We went to the lockers rooms in the center of the building and the lights went out around 11:50. We stayed there for an hour and then were moved to another more central room. We were let out about 1:45pm and found trees uprooted all around the parking lot. Many of my co-workers had windows broken out in their cars and one car was actually forced under an SUV from several parking spots away. One employee got stuck in our lobby when the power went out and shut off our electrically controlled doors. He witnessed the tornado passing through and described it as a "total blackout". The tornado's path went down highway 257 which is about a mile west of the building I was in at Kodak. Given that the tornado was reported to be between 1/2 and 1 mile wide we're lucky we weren't hit worse. On my way home I was redirected trying to get back into Greeley and passed by some houses that were completely leveled just a few miles southeast of the State Farm building across highway 34. There were also some irrigation systems and high voltage power lines tossed to the ground. It appears most of my friends in Windsor are safe, although some have very damaged houses. See the video below to get a sense of the tornado.


Watch at around 3:10 to see the twister hit the state farm building in the background.