Tornado damages home and downs trees in an Ontario town

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Published September 10, 2024 at 8:21 am

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A tornado damaged a home and downed trees in Niagara Falls on Monday afternoon.

Environment and Climate Change Canada warned of the 50 km/h tornado moving through the area around 4 p.m. on Monday.

The Northern Tornadoes Project later confirmed a tornado did occur in the Niagara Falls area at that time.

The confirmation is based on video and photo evidence of singles torn from a home and downed trees in the Niagara Falls Golf Course, the Northern Tornadoes Project said. It is supported by radar showing a supercell storm moving southeast through the area, the Northern Tornadoes Project said in a post.

A preliminary EF0 rating was assigned to the tornado. This is a default rating when only visual evidence of a tornado is available. More violent storms are rated EF/F4 or EF/F5.

The Northern Tornadoes Project will continue to investigate to determine the details of the damage path, which may extend to the U.S. border.

U.S. meteorologist Matthew Cappucci captured video of a tornado from Erie County, New York. He said the storm may have passed near Niagara Falls.

The Northern Tornadoes Project was founded at Western University in 2017 to better detect tornados throughout Canada, and improve severe and extreme weather understanding and prediction, mitigate against harm to people and property, and investigate future implications due to climate change.

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