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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.
Less than 5% of tornadoes that occur in Canada are rated as F3/EF3 or higher. The only officially rated F5/EF5 tornado in Canada is the 2007 Elie Tornado , however Thomas P. Grazulis of The Tornado Project has unofficially rated the 1920 Alameda-Frobisher Tornado and the 1935 Benson Tornado as F5 (neither having any official intensity ratings ...
In Canada, tornadoes are rated based on the damage they cause using a set of "Damage Indicators" which estimate wind speeds based on different levels of damage. Before April 1, 2013, the scale used to rate tornadoes in Canada was the Fujita scale. Following this day, Environment Canada started to use the Enhanced Fujita scale. [2]
Amid a tornado warning on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, powerful winds knocked down trees and branches on Ramona Avenue in Grover Beach. Well, that was an interesting day at work!
A tornado warning for Georgetown in northeastern California also expired at 6:45pm, according to the NWS's Sacramento branch. This warning has been replaced to include the Severe T-storm near ...
The NWS Bay Area said the warning was over for San Francisco at 6:07 a.m. And let the tornado warning expire at 6:15 a.m. The warning led to a flurry of social media posts from residents who were ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
Severe weather activity became more isolated and scattered on May 27, marking the end of the outbreak sequence. In all, 248 tornadoes occurred during the outbreak sequence; 20 (+1 indirect) people were killed by tornadoes while 10 other people died due to non-tornadic events as well. Over 240 people were injured.