Darren Addy
EF5
Anybody have an idea who Scott Taylor saw lose control and go off the road? Hope everyone is alright. Not sure if hydroplaning was the issue, but let's take some extra care out there people! We want you around to chase another day.
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05/22/08 DISC: CO/NE/WY/KS/OK/TX
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Grant Gutierrez
EF0
University of Northern Colorado in Greeley was locked down and then closed due to the severe weather. I was in class in one of the buildings on campus when some alarms started going off. People thought it was the fire alarm so they headed outside, we're lucky it didn't hit closer to us or we may not have informed them otherwise in time. Greeley doesn't have many sirens in the area, esp in town. I never heard a single one. My ex girlfriend who is in our UNC Meteorology Dept with myself is from Windsor, her house was just West of the tornadoes path, missed by maybe a half mile. We may head over tomorrow to check on her friends.
Scott Lincoln
EF4
If its the same incident as shown in the Matt Grantham video on SevereStudios, then I believe it a vehicle driven by Tony Laubach. I just got a text from him asking him if one of the cars on the TWISTEX project spun out (since it looked like one of them in the video), and he said he did have a spin out into the ditch, but made it out and it sounds like everyone is all right.
Todd Beal
EF1
Well, I figured this would get posted at some point, so I will go ahead and say it. The chaser convergence at Exit 120 off of I-70 East was terrible. The exit ramp was completely blocked off with cars. Nobody, if they were trying to exit there, would have been able to get through the mess of cars. Let's show some common courtesy out there guys!
Also, while on 283 North... heading towards Hill City, 3 emergency vehicles screamed by us. Then we saw a helicopter circling the area. I hope nothing bad happened to anyone, but never heard anything else.
Also, while on 283 North... heading towards Hill City, 3 emergency vehicles screamed by us. Then we saw a helicopter circling the area. I hope nothing bad happened to anyone, but never heard anything else.
Tony Laubach
EF5
I haven't seen the video, but I would venture to say it was me. Crested a hill on a dirt road and the back end went. Little Chevy Colbalt with front wheel drive did the best she could, but I steered her into the ditch on a decline once I realized I wasn't going to regain control. Dirt road went to mud on the other side of the hill, but I was doing about 25/30mph at that point. Fortunately it was a smooth landing. One person out of the line of cars slowed to check if we were okay as the rest screamed by without so much as a wave (thanks to the ONE person who did slow to check to see if we were fine).
The tornado to our north was pretty and we got out and took shots before getting in the car and getting her back on the road. Fortunately that was smooth and we had no issues with that either. Probably looked worse than it really was. Either way, the car and its occupants were fine and we were back on the road via our own power within minutes.
EDIT: Just seeing the video, its a shame you didn't get the payoff of me actually going over! LOL
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rdale
EF5
Tony - what was your rooftop setup all about?
Josh Richardson
EF4
I was wondering the same thing, also Tony if you havent seen the video of it Matt G. has a short clip posted in the reports section. I have to say it was by far the most interesting thing Ive seen yet while watching the latest live stream craze. Just happened to turn Matts cam back on and see a Tube right off the bat, then literally about 10 seconds later your car lost control.
Matt Grantham
EF0
I'm glad everyone was okay in your car Tony. As you could see we started sliding all over the place too. My dad said "he's about to wreck!", and then he said "he's gone!" It was crazy to be able to broadcast that to about 450 viewers at the time. It was pretty entertaining I'm sure.
Brian Stertz
EF5
This was some of the wicked tornado and incredible hail video from the May 22nd EF3 Weld Co. tornado (not mine sadly) ...just saw this and was stunned. Not bad for amateur stuff...plus gotta love the golf cart chasers 
. That took some serious moxy....wild times for them I am sure.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOfB0eQVFu0&feature=related
. That took some serious moxy....wild times for them I am sure.http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOfB0eQVFu0&feature=related
Andrew Stoller
EF5
This was some of the wicked tornado and incredible hail video from the May 22nd EF3 Weld Co. tornado (not mine sadly) ...just saw this and was stunned. Not bad for amateur stuff...plus gotta love the golf cart chasers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOfB0eQVFu0&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZeHFWnj4-Y&feature=related
Verne Carlson
EF5
Sadly not mine either, it kills me everytime I watch that video knowing that we started the day in Lafayette, CO just 16 miles from where that tornado formed and missed it. It was such an anomaly in many ways (formed in the morning, moved northwest, 25 miles from the mountains, etc)
I'm actually going to start a support group for all us Colorado chasers that missed that one!
These are pretty interesting radar and sounding grabs from that event:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/?n=tor_radar_052208
Here's the surface map from that morning, the yellow dot above the surface low is Windsor, CO:
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