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This tornado was one continuous tornado but is recorded as an individual EF2 tornado in Ontario and an individual EF1 tornado in Quebec per Canadian records. [289] While this tornado was on the ground, a concurrent EF1 tornado caused tree damage on Butternut Island, Ontario, near Beachburg, Ontario. [334]
The uptick in confirmed tornadoes is also attributed to other factors, such as improved aerial and ground damage assessment after the fact in sparsely populated areas (particularly the case in remote parts of the Canadian Prairies and Northern Ontario, for example), better trained spotter capabilities and increased use of digital recording ...
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.
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 ...
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]
The second tornado hit the Township of Templeton, just east of the Gatineau River causing significant tree damage. The tornado was half a mile wide. [248] Further east of both of these tornadoes, significant damage was reported in Acton Vale, Quebec, and Upton, Quebec, with a hundred homes destroyed and four deaths and a third tornado is probable.
The May 2022 Canadian derecho was a high-impact derecho [5] event that affected the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, Canada's most densely populated region, on May 21, 2022.. Described by meteorologists as a historic derecho and one of the most impactful thunderstorms in Canadian history, [6] [7] winds up to 190 km/h (120 mph) as well as around four tornadoes caused widespread and extensive ...
The Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2009 was a series of severe thunderstorms that spawned numerous tornadoes in Southwestern Ontario, Central Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) on August 20, 2009, and was the largest single-day tornado outbreak in Ontario history and the largest in Canadian history. During the afternoon and ...