Touching down at Stroud, southeast of Angus, this EF1 tornado caused considerable damage at a rural property there. Its path was 750m long and 300m wide, along which a large drive shed was removed from its foundation and thrown several dozen metres, its debris damaging a farmhouse. Several mature trees were also snapped or uprooted. The tornado was rated as a high-end EF1, with winds estimated at between 155 and 175 kilometres per hour.
This was one of two tornadoes to touch down on June 17, 2014. The other:
Figure 1 depicts the surface observations at 5:00 pm EDT, which shows a strong cold front entering southern Ontario and a warm front north of Barrie. The cold front became the focus for intense supercells in the afternoon and evening hours, which led to an EF1 tornado near Stroud and a strong long-track EF2 near Angus.
Sources
NWS Weather Prediction Center Surface Analysis Archive. (2017). Surface analysis 21Z Tue Jun 17 2014. Retrieved from: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/archives/web_pages/sfc/sfc_archive.php
