Photogenic cone tornado touches down E of town, damages properties & greenhouses
This tornado touched down at 5:40pm and struck farms on the east side of Leamington. Residents captured photos and videos of the twister, an elongated, classic cone tornado that was briefly condensed all the way to the ground. It struck several properties, flattening crops, snapping trees, destroying a solar panel and seriously damaging a large greenhouse. On that property, the tornado narrowly missed the farmhouse but blew out most of the glass from the greenhouse, leaving shards spread through nearby fields.
Tornado? Funnel cloud! #leamington #eastbeach pic.twitter.com/sMVkX8hTGo
— Nancy Barkley (@BarkleyNancy) August 12, 2017
Tornado reported around Leamington. https://t.co/Yqgl5tvMyL pic.twitter.com/PkLvnkZJ4S
— ON Weather Watch (@ONWeatherWatch) August 11, 2017
Funnel cloud east of Leamington late this afternoon looking north on Williams side road. pic.twitter.com/AZwdejSIy3
— FJM (@fjm4321) August 12, 2017
County Road#33 and County Road #20. Leamington pic.twitter.com/G0sXprOnf5
— David Dawson (@doubledeed) August 11, 2017
Here is some reported damage form the reported tornado earlier today around Leamington.
We … https://t.co/Yqgl5tvMyL pic.twitter.com/lpg3UBjZ4h
— ON Weather Watch (@ONWeatherWatch) August 11, 2017
Assessing the damage and cleaning up near Leamington & Wheatley where possible tornado ripped through yesterday. @CTVWindsor pic.twitter.com/6pErpIXDMS
— Chris Campbell (@CCampbellCTV) August 12, 2017
#Tornado in #leamington yesterday? Resident David Epp captured pics of a funnel cloud and damage from Friday. #onstorm #YQG #cklw pic.twitter.com/Y3YuUIrZe4
— Mike and Lisa (@mikelisa800) August 12, 2017
This was the first of two tornadoes that touched down in Southern Ontario on August 11; the second was an EF2 tornado at Hawkesville.
