Windsor man films a tornado bearing down on him

Three men gathered in what appears to be a second-floor lunchroom in Windsor, Ont., found themselves staring down a tornado Wednesday — and one of them decided to film the incident.

"Is it comin' our way?" a man off camera asks in a video posted to YouTube by a user named Kenny Mclean.

"It is comin' our way!" the man holding the camera answers.

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Debris can be seen swirling across the parking lot and street. The wind howls throughout the video.

"This is the craziest thing ever," the man filming the twister says. "We're right in the middle of it, right here."

Early on, one of the men contemplates heading outside.

"We gotta go outside and hear it," he says.

Another man disagrees.

"I don't think I want to stand near the window," he says.

Eventually all three back away from the window.

"I don't think that's a good place to be," a man says.

"I know, I'm backing up," the cameraman says.

The video stops as the men retreat into a stairwell.

Environment Canada has confirmed a tornado touched down in LaSalle, Ont., just southwest of Windsor.

It has not confirmed there were two separate tornadoes which would include the one in LaSalle and the one featured in the video in the player above.

Environment Canada isn't sure if the damage done in Windsor, where the Greenwood Centre industrial park and several homes on Riberty Road were wrecked, was from the same tornado that touched down in Lasalle or if the damage in Windsor is from a separate tornado.