Deadly Ontario Storms

[John Hudson]

Southern Ontario saw some powerful storms, including an unconfirmed tornado near Durham, Ontario that has so far left 1 fatality.

I watched a radar loop of this storm on network television, and it looks as though it was a rather large multicell line that contained at least one strong bowing segment. At this time, there are reports of 70,000 without power in the region tonight.

Complete story here:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe...ntario_Tornado_090820/20090820?hub=TopStories

Great footage here:

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/mynews/southern-ontario-storm/#clip205876

John
VE4 JTH

 

[Stephen Levine]

Thank you for sharing this link; I was amazed by the videos taken from just across the street.

I seems that SE Canada has had a pretty active tornado season this year.

 

[Rejean Boudreau]

Last official report (22:00 tonight) from Environment Canada is talking about 4 confirmed tornadoes and 2 probable for that single day. Many damaged places have not been evaluated yet, so the number could grow. 3 are F2 rated, 2 are F1, and there's a waterspout that made land fall - so maybe an f0 depending of the damages at that place.

During that same day , farther north east got some surprise in Quebec as well (there was no violent weather forecasted for that period). At least one out of two possible waterspouts made land fall from the Cabonga reservoir and small towns nearby.