Location
Grey, Ontario, Canada
Start Date
20-4-1996 5:50 PM
End Date
20-4-1996 6:30 PM
Document Type
Report (PDF/Word)
F-Scale Rating
F3
Classification
Confirmed
Description
Many witness accounts of violent tornado. Compelling stories, videos(?), photographs, and a book published (Under the Whirlwind). Upper-end of F3 rating, if not F4 in some places. (Mike Boivin’s house) One photo taken shows a swath of healthy maple bush destroyed with some trees partially debarked. An OPP officer witnessed a house explode as it took a direct hit from tornado.
K-W Record Apr20 1996.pdf (7775 kB)
London Free Press Apr20 1996.pdf (4332 kB)
Williamsford to Blantyre
Grey, Ontario, Canada
Many witness accounts of violent tornado. Compelling stories, videos(?), photographs, and a book published (Under the Whirlwind). Upper-end of F3 rating, if not F4 in some places. (Mike Boivin’s house) One photo taken shows a swath of healthy maple bush destroyed with some trees partially debarked. An OPP officer witnessed a house explode as it took a direct hit from tornado.