F1 tornado touches down, snaps trees & causes structural damage to homes, hotel
The F1 tornado at Milton, Ontario. This tornado hit at 6:30 pm and had a path that was 1.1 kilometres long. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, light standards were toppled and buildings damaged. Part of the roofs were removed from a medical centre and a hotel, and several houses also suffered structural damage.
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
- F0 near North Bay
- 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
