Ethan! As a Canadian and an Albertan, thank you for recognizing Canada’s tornado hx. We tend to get ignored or forgotten about.  LOL at your conversion of mph to km/h. I love you videos!❤

0:46 i genuinely laughed at the fact Saskatchewan is taking up all of the land

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Barrie was actually hit many times, the 1985 tornado mentioned here, once in 2014, twice in 2021 (an ef-3 that was wrongly rated ef-2 in a southern neighborhood and an ef-0 near some Barrie farms) and AGAIN in 2023, another stronger ef-0.

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I like the fact you converted MPH to Km/h 😂

My mother witnessed the Edmonton tornado, she said it took a long time for the city to recover, she was out of the city but it was visible from where she was. When she returned she said her street was ripped to shreds, doors, cars, homes, and metal scraps were everywhere. Her mother and sister were in edmonton at the time and they said they were traumatized. It was terrifying.

Fun fact about the Elie tornado is they actually rated it an F4 at first to be conservative as Canada had never seen an F5. Then three months later they upgraded it to the now infamous F5 rating. Thanks for taking a look at some Canadian tornadoes, they always seem forgotten!

I remember first seeing a picture of the 2007 F5 and thinking "oh, thats cute"....
Until i saw the windspeeds, holy smokes 💀

As a Canadian whose parents both went through Black Friday as it is so infamously called here in the west, I appreciate the coverage of some tornadoes not often covered.

I was in a tornado that you didn't mention. It was a pretty devastating one. You should look up the damage of the tornado in Pine Lake, Alberta. It destroyed an entire RV camp, and almost destroyed several summer camps filled with children 10 and under. It was terrifying.

Little fun fact, back in August 2018, an EF 4 touched down west of Alonsa Manitba (small town i grew up in about 150 km as the crow flies from Winnipeg) and was considered one of the strongest tornadoes in North America from that year. It traveled 15.7 km and was roughly 1.2 km wide, reaching wind speeds of 275km/h before dissipating over lake Manitoba.

Great video! Canada has some very fascinating tornadoes. It's a shame they get overlooked so much. A lot of tornado enthusiasts forget that Canada was not spared from the 1974 superoutbreak. Windsor, Ontario took a direct hit from a tornado that formed on the Detroit River just after 8 pm. It hit a curling club and killed 8 people, with a 9th victim succumbing to injuries months later. My family and I are from Detroit, so my parents remember how scary the sky looked over the city that evening as the sun was going down. While it was very stormy, most people didn't think anything really bad was going to happen. This tragedy is more proof that rivers and other bodies of water won't stop a tornado.

Canadian, fascinated with tornadoes and love your channel. Can't begin to describe how excited I was to see a video on our tornado history.

Some friends on wet coast (BC) were shocked too when they learned we do tornado drills in Canada. Then they got to see a water spout hit a local university campus! The last time a tornado was reported there was 54 years ago, and this one hit in November, extremely weird. Was rated an EF0 of course, but cool as hell given the rarity of the occasion.

I think the Pine Lake tornado of 2000 is always worth a mention as it was arguably the worst tornado disaster in the world that year being an ef3 that hit a trailer park and caused 12 fatalities.

It was only rated an F3, but my hometown of Sudbury, Ontario was hit by a tornado in 1970 that actually did a fair deal of damage to the community of Lively, before moving on and nearly hitting the INCO Superstack (the western hemisphere's tallest smokestack at over 300m tall) which was still under construction at the time, and then doing damage to homes in the city's south end. Can't seem to find a reliable map with a track of the tornado but it is a part of my city's history, and one of the country's deadliest and costliest tornadoes.

We might not get as many tornadoes as the US, but Canadian tornadoes do tend to be very photogenic.

The Edmonton tornado was an interesting case, being rated "borderline F5". It's worst damage was to industrial buildings and related equipment, so it can be somewhat hard to compare to other violent tornadoes. Although I can't speak to whether it deserved an F5 rating, it certainly was a very unique event.

I also wonder if Canadian tornadoes may often be stronger than rated, given the vast expanses of empty farmland and forest they tend to hit (especially in Northern Ontario, where they are surprisingly common). A long tracked wedge tornado hit Manitoba on July 27, 2015, staying over rural areas while on the ground for three hours. There were only a few structures hit, all farmsteads. However, at one point pavement scouring occurred. Although it was far from the most severe pavement scouring in tornadoes, it does possibly suggest a much higher intensity than EF2, the tornado's official rating.

The interesting thing about the EF-scale in Canada is that it's not a 1:1 comprising to the one in the United States. The reason why the F scale was used until 2012, (Being retired in 2013) in Canada was because Environment Canada changed it to better fit Canadian construction standards. The Canadian version also added more DIs, Most notably Heritage churches and Solid Masonry Houses.

Earlier this year the team responsible for rating tornadoes (Northern Tornadoes Project) updated and changed some of the DIs and criteria for the Dods.

They also added in the revision tree fall patterns so they can better rate tornadoes that happen in the middle of nowhere, (Northern Canada is mostly trees). But I don't fully understand it.

The other thing they added was EF ratings based on ground windspeed measurement, along as it's a fixed anemometer of professional quality, and the windspeed is capable of being measured by that device (If I understand it correctly.)

And if anyone is interested there is a journal published by Northern torndoes project on the Anlonsa Ef4 from 2018, Looking at the tree fall patterns from the tornado and other damage from the tornado. What they found was that the Tornado likely had winds of over 315km/h or 200mp/h and that the Wind speeds where greater when estimated using tree fall. However the official damage indicators only supported a Low end Ef4 instead of a low end ef5.

I'm surprised you didn't bring up the F3 tornado that hit Goderich, Ontario in 2011. That's unquestionably the most notable Canadian tornado that's happened in my own living memory, especially given that I'm from southwestern Ontario.

Well done. My hometown of Windsor Ont has an extensive tornado history. In 1946, a strong F4/borderline F5 hit killing 16 people. In '74, we were the only Canadian city affected by the Super outbreak as a F3 killed 9 injured 30 at a curling club (I know, how Canadian), we've had several other spin ups, incl a surprise strong EF-2 wedge in the middle of town Aug 24 2016, (thankfully no casualties), and as recently as LAST Aug 24, 2023 when a EF-0, and a EF-1 touched down on each side of town. Good vid.

My Dad was at his machine shop when Black Friday occurred. Him and his fellows went outside to watch the tornado rip through, completely unperturbed, until they went inside because of hail.

One of his friends working at another machine shop a few blocks away was killed by the building he was in collapsing in on itself (crushed by a wall).