Witnesses watch as F1 cone tornado touches down, travels 20km & decimates forest
The F1 tornado from Bancroft to Carlow Mayo, Ontario. A funnel cloud was observed by witnesses as the tornado touched down at around 9:45pm. It travelled for 19km, leaving entire swaths of forest decimated.
This was one of nineteen tornadoes that struck Southern and Central Ontario on August 20. Other tornadoes this day:
- 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
- F0 near North Bay
- F1 near Haliburton
- F0 at Redstone Lake
- F1 at Ril Lake
- F0 at Orono
- F1 at Rice Lake
- F1 at Buckshot Lake
