HALIFAX – The tornado that touched down in the Grand Lake-area of New Brunswick on Saturday was an EF1, according to Environment Canada.
The twister, which tore apart barns, tossed farm equipment around and ripped up trees in the Whites Cove-area and Cambridge Narrows, hit about 7:30 p.m.
Environment Canada said the tornado’s point of touchdown was near Jemseg and it “produced areas of significant tree damage from the point of touchdown to a distance of near 15 km away.”
“Several videos of the event show a well developed tornado in the area and an Environment Canada storm survey team was onsite to document the damage,” the meteorological agency said in a statement. “Based on characteristics of the damage observed by the storm survey team, this tornado has been classified as an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.”
WATCH: Raw video of Grand Lake tornado
Tornadoes are measured on the Enhanced Fujita scale of 0 to 5.
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An EF-1 tornado can have winds between 135 km/h and 175 km/h.
By comparison, the deadly tornado that devastated parts of Oklahoma, in May, was an EF5 with wind speeds topping 320 km/h.
Read more: History of tornadoes in Atlantic Canada
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