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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]
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.
Another round of severe weather took place late on July 9 across the central Plains and northward. One tornado, rated F2 on the Fujita Scale, struck a fishing lounge, uprooting two cabins and dropping the buildings into a lake near Ear Falls, Ontario, resulting in three deaths and at least five others injured. The third victim was found July 12.
Between both Canada and the United States, the Alonsa tornado was the only EF4+ rated tornado for the year of 2018 [35] 2018 August 15 – 2018 British Columbia wildfires: Wildfires British Columbia: West Coast Unknown Unknown Provincial state of emergency declared [36] 2018 September 21: 2018 United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Tornadoes
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At least one person was injured and 125 homes were damaged just south of Ottawa, Canada, after severe storms spawned tornadoes and gusty winds on Thursday. On top of the damage, the storm resulted ...
The last multiple tornado-related deaths in Canada were caused by a tornado in Ear Falls, Ontario on 9 July 2009, where 3 died, and the last killer tornado was on 21 June 2021 in Mascouche, Quebec. [49]