High Wind in Sedgwick and Phillips Counties, Colorado

High winds developed over portions of the Front Range Foothills and Northeast Plains. Two construction workers in Holyoke were injured when strong winds blew down the trusses on which they were standing. Peak gusts from the windstorm included: 81 mph (70 kts), 7 miles east-northeast of Virginia Dale, 69 mph (60 kts) at Merino and 4 miles east of Haxtun, 64 mph (56 kts), 6 miles north of Wellington, 6 miles south and 21 miles north of New Raymer, 60 mph (52 kts), 14 miles north-northwest of Otis, 59 mph (51 kts) at Hereford, and 58 mph (50 kts) at Thornton and 4 miles southeast of Holyoke.