Environment Canada Confirms Tornado in Brazeau County, Southwest of Edmonton

Tornado fells trees after touching down in central Alberta

The Northern Tornadoes Project that a tornado happened just outside the hamlet of Lodgepole, Alta., about 175 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.

How tornado frequency and severity is trending in Canada

iStock.com/Orchidpoet Tornado frequency more than doubled nationwide over the past decade compared to the previous 10-year period, finds a new study from My Choice Financial, Inc. And Ontario tops the charts when it comes to these weather phenomena, the study says. Most recently, on June 30, a tornado touched down north of London, Ont. Strong thunderstorms moving through southern Ontario that day produced a short-lived EF0 tornado near the commu…

Environment Canada confirms tornado in Brazeau County, southwest of Edmonton

Environment Canada is confirming a “significant” tornado did indeed touch down in a rural area southwest of Edmonton on Wednesday. The tornado formed near Cynthia and Lodgepole in Brazeau County, about 170 kilometres from Alberta’s capital, meteorologist Brian Proctor told CityNews. Proctor says the conditions were “perfect” for tornado activity. “We had a digging trough […]