Tornado devastates Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve, levels swath of forest
The F1 tornado near Haliburton, Ontario. On its path that was 10km long and 300m wide, the tornado passed just north of Kenisis Lake and then through the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve. Whole swaths of forest were destroyed, with trees uprooted, snapped and shorn off at their tops. In addition, a raised hiker’s boardwalk was destroyed. The tornado struck at approximately 8:00pm.
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
- 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
