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Experts have estimated that around 230 tornadoes occur in Canada each year, though only around 60 are formally confirmed. [1] with most occurring in Southern Ontario, the southern Canadian Prairies and southern Quebec. Canada ranks as the second country in the world with the most tornadoes per year, after the United States of America.
May 31 – North Bay, Ontario, was struck by two weak tornadoes. June 23 – a weak tornado touched down in Ottawa between Kanata and Barrhaven.; July 28 – severe thunderstorms over Northern Ontario produced a tornado over Halfway Lake Provincial Park (70 km (43 mi) north of Sudbury) where 800 people were camping at the time, fallen trees injure 4 campers.
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 ...
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]
Part of a tornado outbreak in Ontario and Quebec [30] 1893, May 23 1893 Ontario & Quebec Tornado Outbreak QC-1 – Montreal, QC: Part of a tornado outbreak in Ontario and Quebec [31] 1894, May 20 (or 27) 1894 Huron County Tornado ON-Multiple – Huron County, ON: Described as a severe tornado that killed a considerable number of people [32 ...
The tornado unroofed barns and homes. There is a lack of concrete evidence regarding this tornado. The newspaper also discusses significant damage in the vicinity of Mono Road, Ontario, which might be classified as a second probable tornado. [285]
The 2011 Goderich, Ontario tornado was an F3 tornado generated by an isolated supercell which unexpectedly tore across Huron County, Ontario, Canada on the afternoon of Sunday, August 21, 2011. Beginning as a tornadic waterspout over Lake Huron , the tornado ripped through the lakeside town of Goderich severely damaging the historic downtown ...
Correlating to nearly $390 million in Canadian dollars by today's standard, it was a very expensive disaster indeed (LeGrand, 1990). This tornado outbreak ranks among the Southern Ontario tornado outbreak of 2005 and the 1998 Ice Storm as one of the most costly weather disasters to strike Ontario. Climatologists have estimated that the ...