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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 ...
The following are lists of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks: List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (before 2001) List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (since 2001) List of fatal and violent Canadian tornadoes; List of tornadoes by province (Canada)
Confirmed tornadoes – Sunday, April 21, 1912 [nb 5] [nb 6] F# Location County / Parish State Time Path length Max. width Summary F3 NE of Streator to N of Coal City: LaSalle, Grundy: IL: 22:00–? 20 miles (32 km) 200 yards (180 m) Tornado swept away two farmsteads near Kinsman and Verona. Most of the 37 injuries occurred in barns and losses ...
The peak season for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in Canada is in the summer months, although tornadoes in Canada have occurred in spring, fall and very rarely winter. 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 ...
1912. June 30 - Canada's deadliest twister hit Regina, Saskatchewan. Known as the Regina Cyclone, it was an F4 tornado that devastated the city. More than 300 people were injured and 28 people killed. The total cost of damage was estimated to be around $4.5 million (nearly $117M in 2019). 1915
List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (since 2001) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of Canadian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks .
Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , South Dakota , Iowa and Nebraska .
1985 United States–Canada tornado outbreak: May 31, 1985: U.S. – Canadian Eastern Great Lakes: 44: 90 fatalities: Unusual tornado outbreak was among the most intense recorded, the largest such outbreak in the region. Violent tornadoes devastated towns in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario. Long-track tornado produced F5 damage in ...