Environment Canada confirms tornado touched down in central Alberta on Wednesday

UPDATE: Environment Canada confirmed on Friday that two tornadoes touched down in the area on Wednesday. For more details, visit our latest story. 

Turbulent weather brought yet another tornado to central Alberta on Wednesday, according to Environment Canada.

The weather agency said the EF0 tornado touched down northeast of the village of Waskatenau at about 1:50 p.m., making it the 18th confirmed tornado to touch down in the province this year.

The twister had an estimated wind speed of 90 kilometres per hour to 130 km/hr, Environment Canada said.

Colin Mazurenko, who works in agricultural sales, said he saw what appeared to be a funnel cloud touching down near Waskatenau at about 2:30 p.m.

View photos of a possible tornado spotted near Waskatenau on Wednesday in the photo gallery below.

Mazurenko said it seemed far enough away from him that he wasn’t worried.

“It kind of sat down there for a while on the ground… then it lifted up and hung there for a little bit in the air and then lifted into the clouds and away it went.”

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It is not known whether any injuries have been reported or what kind of damage, if any, resulted from the twister.

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Mazurenko described the weather in the Waskatenau area just before he saw the funnel cloud as being what “seems like it’s an everyday weather right now.”

“It was cloudy and rainy and it was pretty dark going towards the north,” he said.

Waskatenau is located about 100 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

“There was also a report of toonie-sized hail (29 mm) reported just west of Lloydminster Wednesday afternoon,” Environment Canada said.

Global viewer Scott Thostenson sent in the following photos of damage to his cabin in Hanmore Lake, just northeast of Waskatenau.