EF2 tornado hits Teviotdale, damage is extensive with barns & houses destroyed
This EF2 tornado struck the north side of Teviotdale, downing trees and destroying homes and barns. It occurred at around 9:00pm and had a path that was 7km long; it was embedded in a line of severe thunderstorms sweeping across Southwestern Ontario.
The tornado was a large cone that struck at dusk. Canwarn spotter and storm chaser, Dave Patrick, captured photos of the twister, fully condensed to the ground. In addition, a local resident described seeing a rain-wrapped funnel cloud tearing through a field before striking his house.
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Along the path, trees were uprooted, snapped and twisted, swaths of corn were flattened and two large barns were destroyed. One of them was a pig barn, the other was a chicken barn, and in each case the animals were reportedly injured and killed. In addition, at the town’s OPP facility a trailer was picked up and thrown, smashing into and damaging a number of patrol cars.
Damage was most extensive along Wellington County Road 7 on the north side of Teviotdale. There, one house that was struck had its roof torn off and most of its second storey ripped away. Debris from the home was scattered throughout adjacent fields. A neighbouring business, Homestyle Flavours, also suffered roof and siding damage.
At another house that was hit, windows were shattered, roofing and siding were peeled off and pockmarked by debris, and furniture was blown around the interior of the home. Extensive tree damage also occurred on the property, with branches send flying like missiles, torpedoing through the home’s roof and left piercing out of the windshield of a damaged car.
UPDATE: Tornado touched down in Teviotdale, Ont., Environment Canada says http://t.co/30mZ9XbtZ3 pic.twitter.com/Fct6yR1Sed
— CP24 (@CP24) August 3, 2015
“@globeandmail: In photos: Tornado ravages small southern Ontario town of Teviotdale http://t.co/dzj9Ba9uyN pic.twitter.com/Rvjafg3qSP” Yikes! — Mike Wedmann (@mrwclarkson) August 4, 2015
They described the sound as deafening when the EF2 #tornado hit. More on #Teviotdale @weathernetwork @jwhittalTWN pic.twitter.com/TehGf2mIlN
— Krissy Vann (@KrissyVann) August 4, 2015
The Mayor of North Wellington estimated that the damage would be in the millions of dollars.
The Teviotdale tornado was one of four tornadoes that touched down on August 2, 2015. The others:
