Fourth Tornado of the Season Confirmed

[Hurricane Mike]

This afternoon EC confirmed that a second tornado touched down on June 17 near Stroud, south of Barrie. It was rated a 'high-end' EF1 tornado that snapped and uprooted a number of trees and threw a good sized shed onto a nearby farmhouse. All the details are below.

Weather summary for Southern Ontario and the
National Capital Region issued by Environment Canada
At 4:07 P.M. EDT Friday 20 June 2014.

Fourth tornado of the season confirmed from June 17 storms.

A cold front spawned a number of strong to severe thunderstorms this
past Tuesday across Southern Ontario. A second tornado has been
confirmed from this event. It occurred in the stroud area which is
between Barrie and Innisfil. It is to the northeast of the track of
the Angus tornado already confirmed from that day. This tornado
occurred around 5:30 PM.

Survey teams have rated this tornado as a high-end enhanced Fujita
scale 1 (ef1) event with maximum winds between 155 and 175 km/h. The
tornado had a path length of 750 metres and a maximum width of 300
metres.

The following is a summary of damage information related to the
stroud tornado.

Location event

Stroud 12 metre by 15 metre drive shed picked up and
Tossed 70 metres onto a farmhouse

Stroud a number of mature trees were snapped off or
Uprooted

Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.