Location
Haliburton-Hastings, Ontario, Canada
Start Date
30-8-1947 5:25 PM
Document Type
Report (PDF/Word)
F-Scale Rating
F3
Classification
Confirmed
Description
28 homeless
Wrecked 3 farmhouses in 90 seconds.
5 occupants of home found in the trees (some naked and bleeding)
Near Coe Hill a service station was lifted – drew car on roof
Also near Coe Hill a girl was killed by falling timber
“Roar greater than a dynamite explosion”
Large, flat hailstones “half the size of saucers” fell such that people sitting in their car “could not see more than 5 feet outside.”
Many accounts of buildings being blown away and never found again.
Witnesses described the incredible twisting of some trees and other objects. Severe to devastating damage especially in Coe Hill area.
Reason for no F4 rating only due to the suspect construction of houses. If construction deemed sound, F4 rating would apply. Noted in file that at least some of the cabins destroyed were attached to concrete foundations
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Gooderham to Coe Hill & Cloyne
Haliburton-Hastings, Ontario, Canada
28 homeless
Wrecked 3 farmhouses in 90 seconds.
5 occupants of home found in the trees (some naked and bleeding)
Near Coe Hill a service station was lifted – drew car on roof
Also near Coe Hill a girl was killed by falling timber
“Roar greater than a dynamite explosion”
Large, flat hailstones “half the size of saucers” fell such that people sitting in their car “could not see more than 5 feet outside.”
Many accounts of buildings being blown away and never found again.
Witnesses described the incredible twisting of some trees and other objects. Severe to devastating damage especially in Coe Hill area.
Reason for no F4 rating only due to the suspect construction of houses. If construction deemed sound, F4 rating would apply. Noted in file that at least some of the cabins destroyed were attached to concrete foundations