Large cone tornado hits Royal Riding Academy, rips apart buildings & property
The F1 tornado at Newmarket, Ontario. This tornado formed just to the east of Newmarket at 5:50pm and had a path that was 2.5km long. Witnesses captured video of it, a slender elephant trunk with a plume of debris at its base, as it tore through a rural area just outside of town.
The Royal Canadian Riding Academy sustained considerable damage with the roofs partially torn from barns and stables, trailers tossed, fences knocked down and debris strewn across the property. Fortunately there were no injuries to people or horses at the Academy, although two riders were particularly fortunate to have escaped unharmed when they sought shelter in horse trailers which were tossed.
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
- 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 that tracked from Bancroft to Carlow Mayo
- F1 at Buckshot Lake
