Edmonton Tornado

[John Hudson]

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the deadly Edmonton Tornado, an F4 that took 27 lives and caused over $ 300 million in property damage.

The CBC website has put together a feature to mark this day, complete with archived news reports: http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/features/1987tornado/listen.html

The Edmonton Tornado Atlas, considered by many to be the "official" commemorative website, can be seen here: http://www.iassistdata.org/tornado/


John
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[Brian Stertz]

Pretty classic violent tornado...I am pretty sure this is the strongest tornado to have occurred in recorded history that far north (at least for North America). It was pretty devastating. I remember seeing that classic Edmonton tornado pic and having to do a double take on where it occurred. Here is an interesting paper concerning Alberta tornadoes.

http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/80919.pdf

 

[Justin Turcotte]

The industrial portion of the city took a big hit. Hopefully we don't have any oil refineries hit by tornadoes any time soon. Imagine if the tornado path were a kilometer or two further west in much more densely populated areas of the city. As bad as the OKC tornado was, nudge that path a little north and it would have been far worse too.