"I guess, at the end of the day, it's just stuff. Its path was 15 kilometres long and more than 600 metres wide. Saturday's storm levelled homes, tossed vehicles into the air and splintered large trees. We can't forecast to that scale about what's going to happen with severe weather or tornadoes," said Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. "We don't know what's going to happen for the rest of the summer. "Something that almost looks apocalyptic, right? It looks almost like a meteor crash through the area, right?" said Connell Miller with the Northern Tornadoes Project. Twelve homes were damaged and three were destroyed. One person suffered only minor injuries in the recent storm.
Its power was comparable to the Edmonton tornado in 1987 that killed 27 people and injured hundreds more. Everything is gone," Wesley said.Įxperts have now categorized the Canada Day tornado in central Alberta as an EF4 - something the province hasn't seen in 36 years.Ī team of experts says the tornado had wind speeds of up to 275 kilometres an hour. I don't think there's another way to describe it.
There were two homes - one where his mom lived and the other rigged and ready to be moved to a foundation - but now, there's nothing but scraps of wood and metal. On Tuesday, Jared Wesley was surveying the damage to his mother's property. Piles of debris that were thrown all across properties are everywhere in this part of Mountain View County. Just north of Carstairs on Tuesday night, the cleanup was still very much underway. A Canada Day tornado that tore through parts of central Alberta is estimated to be one of the strongest in the province's history.Įxperts have now categorized the tornado as an EF4 - something Alberta hasn't seen in 36 years.
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