A tornado landed at the Alberta center on Wednesday, cutting a road through a lease area, but apparently saving the area of any more serious damage.
The environment and climate change Canada issued a tornado warning on Wednesday afternoon for an area west of the Drayton Valley.
The storm hunter Trenten Pentelichuk said he saw the tornado landed near the village of Lodgepole, about 175 kilometers southwest of Edmonton. He had been in the area all afternoon, hoping to see if the significant activity of the storm in the forecast would really create a tornado.
“Around 4 pm, things began to take off,” he said.
“Many of the storms went up and then died very fast, and then we noticed that the tornado exploded … When we saw it on the radar when he had the tornado on the floor, it was probably 30, 45 minutes.”
Pentelichuk and his storm persecution partner continued after the tornado when he calmed down, then returned to the place where he landed to survey the damage with a drone.
The storm knocked down some trees, but Pentelchuk said that any of the nearby farms seemed to have lost.
“It was, I suppose, what you would call an ideal place for a tornado, where it really cannot do too much structural damage and nobody hurts.”
A team of surveys of the Northern Tornados Project, a research group based at Western University, confirmed on Thursday that a tornado occurred in the area.
The project director, Dave Sills, told CBC News that once the team on the site determines a landed tornado, use the details of the damage to evaluate its strength.
“Usually, what we are looking for to determine if it is a tornado is a long and narrow path,” Sills said.
“From what I understand, it is mainly damage to the trees that happened with this event. Therefore, they will observe the amount of trees in which area, and try to make an evaluation based on that.”
The meteorologist of the environment and climate change of Canada, Brian Proctor, said that the tornado came from a storm “supercell”, which are common in the meadows, and it is known that they are able to produce tornadoes.
It seems that the tornado could have been on the ground for almost 15 minutes, but he might not have held the contact all the time, said Proctor.
“We have seen what seems to be tornado debris as an acid area outside the field of a farmer crossed, and we are seeing many trees deposited in opposite directions, which tends to indicate the rotation associated with that.”
This is the fourth probable tornado in Alberta in what goes on summer, according to the environment and climate change in Canada, compared to 12 next -door tornadoes in Saskatchewan. In early July, that is already approaching the annual average of 14 to 15 that Saskatchewan usually sees the whole summer.
