{"id":16904,"date":"2014-06-26T00:43:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16904"},"modified":"2014-06-26T00:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:50:30","slug":"tornado-in-tottenham-ont-downs-trees-and-power-lines-no-injuries-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/26\/tornado-in-tottenham-ont-downs-trees-and-power-lines-no-injuries-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado in Tottenham downs trees and power lines; no injuries reported"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TOTTENHAM, Ontario — Environment Canada confirms that a low intensity tornado struck a rural area near Tottenham, Ontario, north of Toronto on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada says its survey teams have rated the tornado as an EF-1 with maximum winds between 135 and 175 km\/h.<\/p>\n

“We had a team go out last night (Tuesday) to do a preliminary investigation and that’s how we got the EF-1 reading,” said meteorologist Kelly Hobelman.<\/p>\n

She said a larger team was to check the area in the morning to determine the exact length of the tornado’s path, adding that it appeared the path could exceed 10 kilometres.<\/p>\n

“We had damage reports of a house which had a garage damaged and part of their roof damaged as well and a barn was damaged,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We also heard of a horse fatality in the barn.”<\/p>\n

Emergency Management Ontario said there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n

Some roads in the area were closed due to the severe weather and residents were asked to keep an eye out for downed trees and hydro wires.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada was also checking reports that another tornado may have struck near Casselman, just west of Hawkesbury, Ontario, on the Quebec border.<\/p>\n

“We did receive a report of a funnel cloud near Casselman in the afternoon or early evening, but we did not have any reports of it touching down.” said Hobelman.<\/p>\n

The Tottenham tornado comes a week after a stronger EF-2 tornado struck nearby Angus, injuring three people and damaging more than 100 homes.<\/p>\n

Hobelman said the two tornadoes hitting the same area was a coincidence and it is not uncommon to see tornadoes in the Windsor-to-London-to-Barrie corridor.<\/p>\n

“All of southern Ontario stretching from Windsor and all the way east towards Ottawa is one of our Canadian tornado alleys,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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