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This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by Environment Canada and the University of Western Ontario's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) in Canada throughout 2023. Based on statistical modelling by Sills et al. (2012), an average of 230 tornadoes likely occur across the country each year; however, only 61 of these are actually documented annually based on 1980–2009 averages. [1]
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 ...
A tornado rips roofs off several homes in Ottawa, Canada, on Thursday, June 13. (Twitter/ AmanWhoScripts) The Ottawa Fire Services confirmed that at least 125 homes in Barrhaven were damaged.
In January 2023, the 2023 Pasadena–Deer Park tornado prompts the National Weather Service forecasting office in Houston to issue a rare tornado emergency, the first ever issued by the office. [ 255 ] [ 256 ] [ 257 ] In April, the TORNADO Act was introduced by U.S. Senator Roger Wicker as well as eight other senators from the 118th United ...
A destructive tornado developed Thursday afternoon in the Canadian province of Alberta and left some residents reeling in a rural area of Mountain View County roughly 58 miles (93 km) north of ...
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.
Canada's tornado season once again proved to be hyperactive in 2022, with 117 tornadoes recorded for the second year in a row, equaling the country's highest number on record. While documented ...