Location
Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Start Date
2-5-1983 1:00 PM
Document Type
Report (PDF/Word)
F-Scale Rating
F4
Classification
Confirmed
Description
Violent tornado tracked directly through the center of Reeces Corners causing severe damage to buildings and infrastructure. Some buildings were completely demolished with only their foundations left. Witnesses observed tornado, some from a few km away with a violent plume of debris at its base. A phone booth in the town was hurled about 500m as the tornado hit. Miraculously, no fatalities occurred.
F4 May 2, 1983 Reeses Corners, Lambton.pdf (4156 kB)
May 2, 1983 Reeces Corners Map closeup.jpg (17961 kB)
May 2, 1983 Reeses Corners Newspaper Clippings.pdf (17754 kB)
May 2, 1983 Reeses Corners (Damage Photos, Unknown).pdf (25630 kB)
May 2, 1983 Reeses Corners (Tornado Photos, Glen Kernohan).pdf (12251 kB)
May 2, 1983 Reeses Corners+Walpole (Damage Photos, P. Elms).pdf (4658 kB)
May 2, 1983 Reeses Corners+Walpole (Damage Photos, poss Elms or Newark).pdf (2312 kB)
May 2, 1983 Meterological info.pdf (1298 kB)
Reeces Corners
Lambton, Ontario, Canada
Violent tornado tracked directly through the center of Reeces Corners causing severe damage to buildings and infrastructure. Some buildings were completely demolished with only their foundations left. Witnesses observed tornado, some from a few km away with a violent plume of debris at its base. A phone booth in the town was hurled about 500m as the tornado hit. Miraculously, no fatalities occurred.