Cone tornado touches down north of town, causes minor damage to rural properties
This tornado touched down at the north end of Lucan, spawned by a small but impressive low-topped supercell that formed in the wake of a cluster of storms that swept across Southern Ontario. Its parent storm developed explosively and almost immediately showed signs of rotation; indeed, the tornado formed very quickly, within an hour of the storm’s development. Its initial touchdown was at around 7:00pm. The tornado was classic in appearance, a tapered white cone that darted to the ground as a misty ring of condensation rose from the surface. Area residents captured photos and videos of the funnel as it passed.
The tornado tracked for 5km with a path that was up to 150m in width as it moved across the north side of town. It caused the most notable damage on Saintsbury Line north of Fallon Drive; there, trees were snapped and uprooted, an antennae was toppled and light debris was left littered about the yard of the township’s municipal building. At a neighbouring storage facility, Big Al’s, trailers were flipped over and one of them was tossed onto the adjacent property. In addition, a large sign was blown down and buildings were left with light impact damage from flying debris. About a kilometre to the east the tornado struck an area farm, snapping trees, tearing roofing and siding off of a barn and scattering objects and debris across the yard. From there it continued east through the fields and dissipated, though the parent supercell continued onward with a rapidly-rotating wall cloud. It producing additional funnel clouds near Grafton and Embro, and then dropped a second tornado, another photogenic cone, near the town of Drumbo.
TORNADO REPORTED CONCERN: A thunderstorm was reported producing a tornado near Lucan. Take shelter now.
HAZARD… https://t.co/MjAiTgUawy pic.twitter.com/sPkAa9O5Ow
— OntarioTornadoWatch (@ontariotornado) July 12, 2017
We hope everyone stayed safe during last nights storm. A customer captured this picture just outside of Lucan last night. #onstorm pic.twitter.com/6pNx5univw
— QuadroCommunications (@QuadroNews) July 13, 2017
#onstorm TORNADO REPORTED Devon Copp sent us this photo and reported: There's a tornado on the ground just north… https://t.co/MjAiTgUawy pic.twitter.com/hEZ72QlQxM
— OntarioTornadoWatch (@ontariotornado) July 12, 2017
#onstorm 3 photos of the possible landspout tornado interacting with the surface This storm is in Wellburn and… https://t.co/MjAiTgUawy pic.twitter.com/b0l7joNkFg
— OntarioTornadoWatch (@ontariotornado) July 12, 2017
