Ethan! As a Canadian and an Albertan, thank you for recognizing Canada’s tornado hx. We tend to get ignored or forgotten about. LOL at your conversion of mph to km/h. I love you videos!❤
Some of my familys farm neighbors were caught in the ef3 that hit Pine Lake. Some uprooted trees were the only thing that kept their trailer from completely being swept away.
It was a cute touch when he "corrected" himself (and in doing so had actually provided the information in both units), but this is still a US-based channel with a lot of US-based viewers who have no more inherent idea what "400 kilometers per hour" (4:16) is, or how it relates to other tornadoes we're familiar with, than when tornadoes that took place in the US were being described using units more familiar to us. Maybe keep providing both?
My mother witnessed the Edmonton tornado, she said it took a long time for the city to recover, she was out of the city but it was visible from where she was. When she returned she said her street was ripped to shreds, doors, cars, homes, and metal scraps were everywhere. Her mother and sister were in edmonton at the time and they said they were traumatized. It was terrifying.
@@deanm3464 My family lost everything in that Twister! We took a a 2 week trip to Ottawa when my grandmother phoned us from family's place saying that the Twister was no joke! We had to live with grandma when we got back. I was only 4 when it happened but I do remember a few things! I do remember St Albert being in better condition than Edmonton though lol
Barrie was actually hit many times, the 1985 tornado mentioned here, once in 2014, twice in 2021 (an ef-3 that was wrongly rated ef-2 in a southern neighborhood and an ef-0 near some Barrie farms) and AGAIN in 2023, another stronger ef-0.
I live in Barrie and even I haven't heard about the ef-0 in 2023! Still, after I was just narrowly missed by the 2021 tornado I've been super afraid of twisters ever since 😭
@@maggiesshitposts1337 I was landing at the Toronto Pearson airport when that ef-0 hit in 2023, and we weren’t allowed to land for a while because of weather and just circled the airport until it subsided a bit. My sister’s friend filmed it and had to go hide in a storage room in a mall. A few trees fell down and not much else.
Fun fact about the Elie tornado is they actually rated it an F4 at first to be conservative as Canada had never seen an F5. Then three months later they upgraded it to the now infamous F5 rating. Thanks for taking a look at some Canadian tornadoes, they always seem forgotten!
The interesting thing about the EF-scale in Canada is that it's not a 1:1 comprising to the one in the United States. The reason why the F scale was used until 2012, (Being retired in 2013) in Canada was because Environment Canada changed it to better fit Canadian construction standards. The Canadian version also added more DIs, Most notably Heritage churches and Solid Masonry Houses. Earlier this year the team responsible for rating tornadoes (Northern Tornadoes Project) updated and changed some of the DIs and criteria for the Dods. They also added in the revision tree fall patterns so they can better rate tornadoes that happen in the middle of nowhere, (Northern Canada is mostly trees). But I don't fully understand it. The other thing they added was EF ratings based on ground windspeed measurement, along as it's a fixed anemometer of professional quality, and the windspeed is capable of being measured by that device (If I understand it correctly.) And if anyone is interested there is a journal published by Northern torndoes project on the Anlonsa Ef4 from 2018, Looking at the tree fall patterns from the tornado and other damage from the tornado. What they found was that the Tornado likely had winds of over 315km/h or 200mp/h and that the Wind speeds where greater when estimated using tree fall. However the official damage indicators only supported a Low end Ef4 instead of a low end ef5.
As far as that tornado goes, there is a good chance it was stronger than the official rating. The highest DI was rated the way it was because the house had a poorly built addition that likely provided an entry point for the tornadic winds. The structure was entirely swept away, so the rating is really a minimum. Nothing higher can be proven, but it is possible. The treefall pattern estimates peaked in the EF5 range, but they also were possibly in the EF4 range, which means that would be the rating anyways, as EF5 intensity cannot be proven.
@@TheWigglergler That's why I said they estimated it and the Offical damage indicators where only ef4. The journal was an interesting read and thought it was worth mentioning.
I am a simple Canadian, I see "Canada, Eh?" I click. Love your channel by the way. 11/10 tornado content. Edit: The Replies under this message are full of a bunch of babies, crying and pissing their diapers because my profile picture has a Rainbow in it. They are addicted to culture war and should be ignored. 🏳🌈🏳⚧Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳⚧🏳🌈
My mom was a kid at the time of the Edmonton tornado in 1987. She lived in Kenilworth at the time. She remembers how she, my uncle, and my grandma had to huddle in the basement, and how they were worried about my grandpa because he was out working. She had just been walking home from school an hour before. She always brings up the destruction and uprooting of the mobile homes and trailers whenever she talks about it. She says that the tornado was one of the most devastating events she’d witnessed, and that nothing like it had happened before at such a scale, with such destruction and death. I myself never knew just how strong the tornado had been, but to think it had been bordering on an F5 is terrifying. It took a long time for the city to recover from that. The tornado actually resulted in the development of the Emergency Public Warning System (now the Alberta Emergency Alert). It also saw the first implementation of the Doppler weather radar concept in Canada. Edmonton’s radar (located in Carvel) was one of just three Dopplers to exist in Canada at the time (late 1990s), and it became a part of the Canadian weather radar network/became dopplerized in 1998. Thank you for making this video! As a Canadian and Albertan, finding folks talking about our history on the internet is quite nice! :)
It was only rated an F3, but my hometown of Sudbury, Ontario was hit by a tornado in 1970 that actually did a fair deal of damage to the community of Lively, before moving on and nearly hitting the INCO Superstack (the western hemisphere's tallest smokestack at over 300m tall) which was still under construction at the time, and then doing damage to homes in the city's south end. Can't seem to find a reliable map with a track of the tornado but it is a part of my city's history, and one of the country's deadliest and costliest tornadoes.
Canadian, fascinated with tornadoes and love your channel. Can't begin to describe how excited I was to see a video on our tornado history. Some friends on wet coast (BC) were shocked too when they learned we do tornado drills in Canada. Then they got to see a water spout hit a local university campus! The last time a tornado was reported there was 54 years ago, and this one hit in November, extremely weird. Was rated an EF0 of course, but cool as hell given the rarity of the occasion.
Great video! Canada has some very fascinating tornadoes. It's a shame they get overlooked so much. A lot of tornado enthusiasts forget that Canada was not spared from the 1974 superoutbreak. Windsor, Ontario took a direct hit from a tornado that formed on the Detroit River just after 8 pm. It hit a curling club and killed 8 people, with a 9th victim succumbing to injuries months later. My family and I are from Detroit, so my parents remember how scary the sky looked over the city that evening as the sun was going down. While it was very stormy, most people didn't think anything really bad was going to happen. This tragedy is more proof that rivers and other bodies of water won't stop a tornado.
We might not get as many tornadoes as the US, but Canadian tornadoes do tend to be very photogenic. The Edmonton tornado was an interesting case, being rated "borderline F5". It's worst damage was to industrial buildings and related equipment, so it can be somewhat hard to compare to other violent tornadoes. Although I can't speak to whether it deserved an F5 rating, it certainly was a very unique event. I also wonder if Canadian tornadoes may often be stronger than rated, given the vast expanses of empty farmland and forest they tend to hit (especially in Northern Ontario, where they are surprisingly common). A long tracked wedge tornado hit Manitoba on July 27, 2015, staying over rural areas while on the ground for three hours. There were only a few structures hit, all farmsteads. However, at one point pavement scouring occurred. Although it was far from the most severe pavement scouring in tornadoes, it does possibly suggest a much higher intensity than EF2, the tornado's official rating.
@@timnewman1172 You are correct. High cloud bases are also quite common. Look at any violent tornado in Canada, most have a cone shape with a high cloud base and clear visibility. Less intense tornadoes are much the same way, but there is less coverage of most of those. There are exceptions, such as the 1985 Barrie tornado, but in general those in Canada are quite photogenic.
My family's farm was far enough away from Edmonton when the 87 tornado hit (called Black Friday up here) that they were able to watch it tear through Millwoods, the oil refinery, and the trailer park. Everyone pulling together to rebuild afterwards was the reason the city had the nickname City of Champions for the longest time (as well as the Oilers and Eskimos kicking ass in their respective leagues).
Honestly Barrie’s damage in the industrial park is well deserving of an F5 rating, the steel-framed brick facade factories and an anchor bolted tire shop were mangled like in Wheatland with scouring, severe low lying vegetation damage and car damage where some were entirely ripped off their frames. Even some bad granulation but the homes were not warranting of anything more than an F4 rating due to the weak foundations Edmonton is a lot more borderline, the damage from Wheatland and Barrie to the industrial buildings is visibly more violent
@@EliRicke-xl9mwI believe Edmonton reached F5 intensity in a small area where large tanks were thrown and scouring was observed just past Norton steel and the sawmill, but it didn’t hit the structures hard enough to verify it and the contextuals are generally less violent than Barrie HE F4 seems fine from what I’ve seen
@@Obviousthrowawayaccount I live in Barrie and after the 2021 tornado I frequently drove past some houses that definitely looked like they took EF3-level damage. I remember that tornado's EF2 rating being controversial in the community at the time.
I live an hour and a half southeast of Barrie, Ontario. Recently I asked my dad if he remembered the 1985 Barrie EF4 tornado, as it occurred before I was born, and he said he did; here’s his recounting: My dad used to work for a large Canadian telecommunications company as a repair/maintenance man on a team. At the time the storm and the Barrie EF4 tornado hit, my dad was with his team in the back of their work van, driving on the highway, south of Barrie and north of Toronto. He didn’t get hit by the actual tornado, but his team got caught in the surrounding storm, and the rain and winds were becoming severe; he recalls seeing a semi truck flip over onto its side in front of them, but they were unable to stop the van due to the dangerous driving conditions. The wind and rain got so bad that the highway came to a complete stop as there was zero visibility. My dad’s van was stuck sandwiched between other stopped cars, on top of an overpass. The rain was falling so hard that the road began to flood, and the bottom of my dad’s van began filling with water as the water levels on the road increased outside. My dad recalls being very scared that the weight of all of the stopped cars, plus that of all of the rising flood water, would cause the overpass to collapse under them, and they were completely stuck, unable to move or do anything else but pray. Thankfully, the storm passed by without causing more damage, and my dad and his team were unharmed, but a bit shaken up.
I was in downtown Edmonton during the 87 tornado. I was helping to mop up the water that was pouring into my friend’s restaurant. The rain was coming down so heavily and was being driven by the wind. Later on, we heard about the carnage in the eastern part of the city. I then moved to Manitoba and remember seeing the coverage of the Elie tornado. There was video that showed a minivan going around the outside of the tornado vortex. I think that went a long way in convincing the experts that it was indeed an F5. This time I was 50 miles away from the tornado.
Most people don’t realize this, but British Columbia, the province west of Alberta, had a rare encounter with a tornado not long ago: an EF0 struck the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus in early November, 2021, causing a surprisingly amount of damage to a golf course and trees, with winds nearing 110KPH. The storm also created some stunning waterspouts in the Strait of Georgia. Tornadoes are very rare in BC due to the mountainous terrain affecting their formation, but when they do form, it’s usually weak yet still comes as a shock to us.
I lived through the Tornado in Orangeville 1985, I lived on the north side of the town, it literally went through my property leaving our house but taking out a work shop in the back, it then crossed hwy 10 and destroyed a mall. One of the scariest situations that I’ve faced in life.I still get nervous to this day when i see weather like that day.
i’m very glad you covered the barrie tornado, being a medium ish sized town (for canadian standards ) we don’t have many events that were huge, i’ve never seen this topic covered in video form. the residents of barrie always fear the outbreak coming back one day , we do get minor tornados in the farm areas every year but they’re so small compared to 85’
My grandma was rocking me in a rocking chair in our living room in Orangeville when the sky turned pitch black and the wind picked up. I don't remember it, I was only one year old. My grade 5 teacher told our class that his friend's son was on the bridge on the 5th line in Hockley when he noticed bad weather approaching, so he jumped back on his bicycle and was trying to get home before the storm hit. Searchers found his Spiderman wallet sitting on the railing of the bridge, but unfortunately, they found his body slammed halfway through a hydro pole near Highway 10 by cashway...had he stayed on the bridge he would still be alive.
the video that gave it the F5 rating is still up on youtube by the way. It lifted an entire well built brick house off from it's wind-snapped bolting and had it circle around the funnel before tossing it a rather sizeable distance
@@not_kjb Maybe it didn't have enough victims for some folks... >.> Tbh I think there's an argument to be made for retroactive ratings that compartmentalize individual subvortices since a lot of the time it's a particular subvortex that's doing F/EF5 damage. Iirc, such was the case in Elie, such was the case in El Reno.
Elie tornado: "May I loop around onto you again?" Canada: "Um, OK,and thank you for asking." Just kidding of course. Those of us who study tornadoes are quite aware of the ones in Canada, but the general public isn't. This video will help raise that awareness.
My Dad was at his machine shop when Black Friday occurred. Him and his fellows went outside to watch the tornado rip through, completely unperturbed, until they went inside because of hail. One of his friends working at another machine shop a few blocks away was killed by the building he was in collapsing in on itself (crushed by a wall).
I was only a toddler in '87, but I remember that storm. My family lived not far from where that tornado turn to aim for the trailer park. I didn't see the tornado but that is the darkest I have ever seen the sky when it's not the middle of the night. And the clouds weren't their normal thunderstorm colour. They were almost brown, but damn dark. That storm was bad enough to make itself one of my earliest memories. I remember the storm for the Elie tornado too, though I was in Winnipeg then so we only saw the far edges of that storm but it was still memorable.
I can really relate to this... As a toddler, I rode out the Palm Sunday tornado of 1965 in my aunt's basement, with my mom wrapped around me. I remember the darkness, and change in air pressure. It is my first memory, and time has not dimmed its intensity.
@@fauxpinkytoo I don’t remember much past my mom closing the front door, from which i had been watching the clouds. I remember she seemed upset but I wasn’t sure why. It wasn’t until years later I learned there had been a tornado. At the time my parents just said it was a bad storm. I can’t imagine what it was like for you, but I can agree that it’s an experience that sticks with you for life.
As a Canadian whose parents both went through Black Friday as it is so infamously called here in the west, I appreciate the coverage of some tornadoes not often covered.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw I was 4 years old when the tornado hit Edmonton. We were in Ottawa visiting family at the time when we saw a Breaking News story on TV from our family's house! My grandmother phoned us from St Albert and told us our house was completely ruined! We lost everything! It was definitely an F5! I love living in Alberta but we can get some violent storms here!
We're no strangers to Tornadoes down here in Southern Ontario. Absolutely got bombarded with three last year in Ottawa on top of a Derecho in 2022. Cannot catch a break...
I was in a tornado that you didn't mention. It was a pretty devastating one. You should look up the damage of the tornado in Pine Lake, Alberta. It destroyed an entire RV camp, and almost destroyed several summer camps filled with children 10 and under. It was terrifying.
I live in Edmonton and the Black Friday tornado is absolutely legendary here. I wouldn’t be surprised if we got another one. That tornado came with zero warning. Edit: I wasn’t born until 1990 but before the tornado touched down near Edmonton, my mom was in Red Deer and she said even the sky was black there.
I'd like to add that the EC themselves said that Edmonton had minimal F5 damage. One of the main reasons why Elie was F5 was because a video surface of a home being completely swept off its foundation
I remember driving past the damage from the Didsbury EF4. I was in Waterton and Lethbridge for Canada Day weekend and we had heard about it so we took a detour on our way back home to Edmonton. It was truly devastating
it was very devastating for my town, yeah. all i can do is thank all the gods above that nobody died, cus most of my best friends go to school in town with me
@@nixx_swiftie And that it wasn’t a few kilometers north or south. If it would’ve directly hit Didsbury or Carstairs the outcome would’ve been totally different
We were in Strathmore that day for Canada Day, but even if we were at home in Aidrie, we would've been safe, yet we could see the supercell all the way from Strathmore.
I think the Pine Lake tornado of 2000 is always worth a mention as it was arguably the worst tornado disaster in the world that year being an ef3 that hit a trailer park and caused 12 fatalities.
I live in one of the Canadian tornado alleys, a few years ago we got over 8 tornados in the region around the town of collingwood, all ended up in the farm land, the beaches and the forests
Great job! I live in a town a few hours north of Toronto named Sudbury, we rarely will see supercells but had an f3 in 1970 tear through our town and take multiple lives. just goes to show that even in northern ontario a tornado warning system is a must.
@@junefirst definitely I'd just left work to see it going by only a few kilometers away. Came with essentially no warning. Great example of how quickly a storm can change
The only tornado I was in, was the one in the summer of 2023. North Talbot, back of the club where the ball diamonds are. It didnt last longer than ten seconds but went right from the trail behind the factories to the big patio at far back of ciociaro club. Also, in the past I was sleeping outside at the club beside the new jail. The lightening was green, and the thunder sounded like bombs were going off. @junefirst
Great video! Subscribed. We were on the Didsbury tornado from start to finish and it was surreal. Not only violent but stunningly photogenic. I saw a fascinating presentation at the Storm Chase Canada Conference by Dr. Connell Miller of Northern Tornadoes Project where he calculated the windspeed necessary to loft the 10 tonne combine it threw and found that it likely required EF5 level wind. But since lofted vehicles aren't an official EF scale damage indicator it could only be officially rated EF4.
I lived through two (sorta) the Didsbury one, I was in Calgary and my wife and I went for a walk. It was so windy and cool we loved it not knowing we were at the end of a tornado storm that was hitting Didsbury and when I was a kid in 1987 the monster tornado hit Edmonton. It was insane. And now? If it happened today the destruction would be absolute as its path all has houses on it.
I was hit by a small tornado as a kid in North Bay, Ontario, while literally living in a trailer park lol. We got by fine, the house across the way lost a feew windows, and next to them lost their huge 1980s satelite dish
I used to live in south eastern Ontario pre 1979 and I’ve seen and have been in many tornadoes in our area. Watching that sky ( if you’ve been in a tornado you know THAT colour) listening to the radio while you’re camping is no fun. Seeing that destruction even days later……what scares me even now WIND.
The horrible irony of the 1912 tornado was that two of the victims had had tickets for the Titanic but missed their connecting boat so the Titanic sailed without them. They missed the Titanic sinking only to be killed by a tornado when they finally reached Canada
Im surpised you didn't talk about Alonso EF4 but that is not why I wrote this rather a paper submitted this year talking about Alonso EF4, Scratch EF3, and the Didsbury EF4 using a new DI involving simulations with data from thrown objects concluding all three to be EF5 and expecting this to be included in the American EF Scale thought this was interesting also Canada uses there own version of the EF with modified values such as there tree techniques and anemometer measurements
A few honourable mentions would be Woodstock 1979, Port Huron/ Sarnia 1953, Windsor Ontario 1946 1974, Reece’s Corners 1983, Goderich 2011, Pine Lake 2000. Would love to see some content on those. 😊
I remember my folks telling me as a kid about the tornado that "jumped" the St. Clair River and hit Sarnia back in '53 that decimated the downtown region. Even after it was rebuilt, it didn't seem that inviting for decades lol
@Roycebert my grandparents talked of that one for years. My parents talked of Woodstock and Reece's Corners as well as they seen both. Did you read the book Tornado by John A. Toll? Fascinating read about the Woodstock tornado. Might be worth a look. Hard book to find though.
For people watching outside Canada who might not know, July 1st is Canada Day, aka our Independence Day. It makes the Alberta EF4 more tragic to occur on a day of celebration.
Well done. My hometown of Windsor Ont has an extensive tornado history. In 1946, a strong F4/borderline F5 hit killing 16 people. In '74, we were the only Canadian city affected by the Super outbreak as a F3 killed 9 injured 30 at a curling club (I know, how Canadian), we've had several other spin ups, incl a surprise strong EF-2 wedge in the middle of town Aug 24 2016, (thankfully no casualties), and as recently as LAST Aug 24, 2023 when a EF-0, and a EF-1 touched down on each side of town. Good vid.
Another large tornado hit McGregor which barely had any people back during May 1956 but it was the same F4 that struck Allan Park, Michigan before crossing the Detroit River. Another tornado crossed into Canada at Sarnia in 1953, it did enough damage there but then reached over a mile wide on farmland east of the city. A much earlier tornado record of a significant path through forests north of Wheatley in 1851 and even before that of a large tornado travelling over Lake St Clair in 1828 ( possible same one recorded in Detroit ). 1896 was also a bad year for both Michigan and rural southern Essex County. I do think Environment Canada rated the 2010 Colchester to Leamington tornado a bit weaker than it actually was, especially with the damage in a few farm homes south of Harrow
@@randystewart7219 my in laws were sideswiped by the 2010 twister. They lived right on the water near Leamington. They heard the freight train, lost a couple of windows, and when we looked at the damage the next morning, they had a beautiful umbrella tree in their backyard in which one side was sheered completely away, like a meat cleaver had done it
@@spcoll4348 I remember that storm, while I wasn't there during it, I was visiting in the Leamington area the next month and saw the damage path. Also went to the beach on Cedar Island and noticed the entire grove of trees that used to be between the beach and the marina was gone. That tornado sure did alot of damage and unusual in so many ways, tracked across Lake Erie twice from Monroe, Michigan then from Cedar Island to Ruthven and hit in the middle of the night. Supposedly another tornado. an F4 went out over Lake Erie from Monroe, Michigan during June 1953 but never came onshore and eventually dissipated. It was from the same outbreak as the much more famous Flint tornado.
Barrie is my hometown! Summers are always littered with tornado warnings, but nothing has come close to 85. We had a EF-2 roll through in 2021 that knocked over quite a few houses
I was JUST talking about the Elie, Manitoba mutant! It's like whenever you make a statement about what tornados can and can't do, you'll find an historical exception to the rule - and most of those exceptions are the 07 Elie, Manitoba F5 for whatever reason.
My mom has lived right on lake simcoe her whole life and I lived in the same house she lived in. She still tells me about how she was playing outside and saw the tornado cross onto the lake and still has the fear and amazement that accompanied her that day. We are both storm buffs and it was super cool seeing a video so close to home. Hope we don’t have another Toronto like that
On of the people in the area before and after the Regina tornado (he’d supposedly gone canoeing elsewhere when it hit) was William Pratt, a travelling actor who went by the stage name Boris Karloff. Also there’s a local urban legend that a newly immigrated couple from the UK who died in the tornado had missed their honeymoon boat ride on the titanic three months earlier, supposedly because their wedding reception ran long.
Feels like a bit of a miss to not mention a tornado that touched down in Ontario in a rural town near the city of Sarnia known as Reeces corners. Which became known Reece’s pieces, because of course it did. The date in question is May 3, 1983.
I live in Regina and that 1912 tornado being the worst in Canada was one of the only exiting things here. I had to do so many research projects on it lmao.
Funny that you make that video now. We may have gotten 3 tornadoes in Québec on Wednesday (That’s July 24th 2024 for those from the future). 1 has been confirmed in Brossard, a suburb of Montreal, haven’t seen confirmation for the other 2 though. Also, here in Québec, we received on average 10 to 11 tornadoes on average. Edit: the one in Brossard was a weak one, no need to worry. I haven’t heard anything about fatalities or injuries.
A little shout out to the Pine Lake tornado tragedy. Can only imagine how horrifying it would have been to be stuck in a tent at a campsite while an EF3 wedge comes flying at you.
I remember this day well. it was a early afternoon and me and my family were sitting in our kitchen in MacDonald (small town just off the 16 highway) and it was my grandma’s bday. we heard a sudden loud thunder crack but it wasnt raining where we were. my friend however was in his dads semi on the #1 and watched the Elie tornado rip through the edge of town. the grain mill was completely destroyed and he caught videos of the tornado lifting train cars and throwing them like toys. he also got a video of the tornado picking up a semi on the highway and tossing it across the highway into the ditch like it was nothing. it was on the news the next day and to this day its the craziest thing nature wise to happen in this province.
Fun fact there was a possible F5 tornados in Canada in the 20’s in south east Saskatchewan in the towns of Alameda and Frobisher. Also in 1935 the was an F4 tornado in south east saksatchewan in the town of Benson. Which was believed to be an F5 but ruled out as an F4.
Hi! Canadian here, Didsbury and Cochrane were affected, I saw the Didsbury tornado and I was scared that it would hit us, so, we went to our cousins’ house, just in case.
While most tornadoes are basically runaway freight trains, moving in a set direction at great power, some of them almost seem alive and to have personalities. The Elie F5 I can only describe as "cheeky", doing 2 loop-de-loops at low end F1-F2 intensity, suddenly increasing to F5 and tossing an entire, intact house, Wizard of Oz style.
I remember visiting the damage from the Elie tornado, it was wild to see, everything west of the church there was gone, meanwhile the church and everything east of it was untouched, it was surreal. I know my family has pictures of it somewhere. The Elie tornado wasn't alone, it had a sibling tornado not too far away, the Oakville tornado that was F3 rated, happening at the same time. I don't know why that wasn't mentioned in the video… according to radar imagery data of the time, 3 parallel active supercells were happening, Elie tornado being part of the one in the middle, supercell B.
The storm that created the "Black Friday" tornado was just north of Rocky Mtn House that morning. To this day, l still haven't seen clouds THAT black & angry, with lightning shooting out of it like it did. As it is, we got hammered with a nasty rainstorm the day before in Sylvan Lake. The raindrops that came out of that storm hurt when they hit you.
I live in Southern Ontario, and there seems to be a lot more tornado warnings and watches in the last 10 years. The wind has also gotten a lot worse. We've already had a couple of confirmed touchdowns this Summer, but nothing super destructive, thankfully. I've also noticed, in the last 5 years or so, the Ottawa valley is getting more activity. I watch a lot of tornado information videos, like this and Pecos Hank, and yet, damned if I didn't watch what turned out to be an EF0 tornado basically rip through my backyard. I thought "Wow, that's really windy!". I didn't see a funnel, and it didn't sound like a freight train, but I guess it's not always that obvious, when you're right in it. It's a little scary to know I'm kind of in one of Canada's tornado alleys. Further north is the worst, though. Barrie gets a lot of activity.
I mentioned in my comment the Ottawa Valley. Yes, the greater heat is creating a lot more risk. I think the really rainy summer funny enough kept them down this year as there wasn't as much opportunity to create surface heat. I've seen a small one from a distance and I don't ever want to be closer.
When you mentioned that anchor bolts were sheared axially, does that mean they were twisted apart from top to bottom, rather than being snapped off across the diameter of the bolt? 😮
Eastern Canada does have its own analog to the gulf of Mexico. The Great Lakes define the climate of eastern Canada. It is the reason why Montreal is one of the most snowy cities on the planet. As for the rest of Canada, there's no shortage of lakes. 62% of all lakes on the planet are in Canada.
My dad got caught in the Barrie twister, he was on his motorcycle & got right in the path of it. He ditched the bike and ran into a building nearby for shelter. After it passed he looked for his bike & stumbled upon a body in a ditch He won't talk much about the body but I know it was mangled bad
Appreciate the conversion to km/h and I really like that you showed the various tracks.. One thing you did leave out is that there's a mini tornado alley around the Ottawa area on the Ontario/Quebec border. They aren't usually stronger than a EF2 but they can still do a lot of damage.
I was born in Barrie and remember the tornado that hit. I remember being brought into the basement of our home and just hearing what sounded like a freight train passing over us for like a few minutes before going away. When I went outside I saw the trees were gone and some houses were gone to as it kept on going.
Movies always talk about how Tornadoes go through Oklahoma but I live in Ontario and a tornado ruined my house when I was little And in 2021 two Ef0 zeros went through the village I live in
The huge derecho or whatever it was called, here in Ottawa the storm was insane. Ripping trees, ruining houses and much more, 2021 was a rough year for canada with natural disasters
Great video! But there is one more Canadian tornado to add to the list, the Pine Lake tornado on July 14th 2000 in Greenacres Campground, Alberta. It killed 27 and injured over 300 people!
I have college friends who live in the Evergreen trailer park in Edmonton Alberta. They were going to the other’s trailer but stayed where they were. So glad my parents didn’t take all 4 of us kids to Edmonton to go school shopping
I absolutely love tornados and videos about them and I've never been able to watch one about the Barrie F4 since there's not many so thanks for making this!!
About 3-4 years ago my community witness 2 water tornados at Black Island days trying to merge together about 50-100 km off shore, the winds they felt tore healthy trees from the ground
