Cone tornado develops over Lake Nipissing, is caught on video as it comes ashore
The F0 tornado near North Bay, Ontario. This tornado formed over Lake Nipissing at around 7:00pm and then moved onto shore. It was witnessed by homeowners and cottagers all around the lake, and was a highly visible and photogenic tornado. Residents captured photos and videos of the tornado, a fat cone, as it churned over the lake. As it approached the shore, it became an elephant trunk tornado as it entered its rope-out stage.
This was one of nineteen tornadoes that struck Southern and Central Ontario on August 20. The others:
- deadly and destructive F2 that struck Durham
- damaging F2 that hit The Blue Mountains
- F1 at Arnstein
- F1 that tracked between New Lowell and Edenvale
- F1 at Newmarket
- damaging F2 in the Woodbridge neighbourhood of Vaughan
- F0 at Moonstone
- damaging F2 tornado in the Maple neighbourhood of Vaughan
- F0 at Dollars Lake
- F1 that struck Gravenhurst
- F1 at Milton
- F1 near Haliburton
- F0 at Redstone Lake
- F1 at Ril Lake
- F0 at Orono
- F1 at Rice Lake
- F1 that tracked from Bancroft to Carlow Mayo
- F1 at Buckshot Lake
