Experts have confirmed a tornado touched down in Deep River on the weekend, uprooting trees, causing minor structural damage and even flipping a boat as it blew through town.
“This was kind of a minor tornado, but still a tornado,” David Sills, executive director of Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project, told CBC News.
The project’s storm survey team was dispatched to town to confirm reports circulating on social media.
Sills said the tornado developed around 2:45 pm Sunday and carved a path of about one kilometre, with a maximum width of about 130 metres.
Sills said the team found evidence of wind speeds reaching 115 km/h, within the lowest range of the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, which is used to measure wind damage. The scale goes to five.
While low on the scale, storms like the one in Deep River can still cause injuries and shouldn’t be taken lightly, Sills said…
(Photo: Bev Byrnes)
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