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Experts have estimated that around 230 tornadoes occur in Canada each year, though only around 30 are formally confirmed. [1] with most occurring in Southern Ontario, the southern Canadian Prairies and southern Quebec. Canada ranks as the second country in the world with the most tornadoes per year, after the United States of America.
May 31 – North Bay, Ontario, was struck by two weak tornadoes. June 23 – a weak tornado touched down in Ottawa between Kanata and Barrhaven.; July 28 – severe thunderstorms over Northern Ontario produced a tornado over Halfway Lake Provincial Park (70 km (43 mi) north of Sudbury) where 800 people were camping at the time, fallen trees injure 4 campers.
In Ontario, nine tornadoes were confirmed. Of the nine tornadoes, there were three EF0 tornadoes near the towns of Kettle Point, St. Columban and Belmont. The remaining six tornadoes were of EF1 strength, and they hit near the towns of Thedford, Blyth, Lucan, Gads Hill, Beachville and Eden Mills. These weak tornadoes downed numerous trees, and ...
Numerous other violent, killer, long-tracked tornadoes occurred from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, including an extremely long-tracked F4 tornado that traveled almost 110 mi (180 km) and killed 18 people in northern Indiana. Strong, deadly tornadoes occurred as far north as Ontario (where an F3 tornado touched down) as well. The outbreak ...
The deadliest tornadoes in Canadian history were the 1912 Regina 'Cyclone' (at least 28), 1987 Edmonton 'Black Friday' Tornado (27), and the 1946 Windsor–Tecumseh Tornado (17). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Researchers with the University of Western Ontario's Northern Tornado Project conducted a case study on this tornado, in which, they estimated the tornado had winds of at least 110–119 metres per second (250–270 mph; 400–430 km/h) based on an analysis of an SUV and a truck thrown by the tornado 50 metres (55 yd) and 100 metres (110 yd ...
While most tornadoes attain winds of less than 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), are about 250 feet (80 m) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers), the wind speeds in the most intense tornadoes can reach 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), are more than two miles (3 km) in diameter, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 km).
1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak; 1985 Barrie tornado; 1996 Southern Ontario tornadoes; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 1996; Tornado outbreak of July 1–3, 1997; Late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 2004; List of tornadoes in the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence; Southern Ontario ...