Canada’s second tornado of the year strikes the Prairies
No damage was reported after the tornado struck southern Manitoba
April ended with Canada’s second tornado of the year, experts with the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) announced on Thursday.
A storm near Tourond, Man., produced the confirmed tornado at 5:03 p.m. local time on April 30.
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The thunderstorm developed as a low-pressure system traversing the southern Prairies dragged a cold front across the region.
“Witnesses captured video of a tornado southeast of Tourond,” according to the NTP’s event summary on Thursday.
The group assigned the twister a default EF-0 rating because no damage was reported. They added that they’ll review satellite imagery from the region to assess any potential damage.
This was Manitoba’s first tornado of the year, and the country’s second after a landspout tornado struck near Rolling Hills, Alta., on April 12.
Canada typically averages about 65 tornadoes per year. About half of the country’s usual twisters occur on the Prairies, while much of the remaining activity unfolds in Ontario and Quebec. Tornadoes are rare—but certainly not impossible—in British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces.
We can expect tornado activity to increase across Canada heading into the summer months.