Environment Canada is responsible for warning the public when conditions exist that may produce tornadoes. It does this through radio, television, newspapers, its internet site, as well as through its weather phone lines. On average, Canada has around 62 reports of tornadoes every year, according to Environment Canada. They commonly occur in southern Saskatchewan and Alberta as well as through southwestern Ontario. The Ottawa-Gatineau tornadoes were the most recent of 33 tornadoes reported in The storm reached a width of around yards and remained on the ground for at least 20 minutes, according to Environment Canada.
It led to one fatality, a man in his 70s. Tornadoes typically occur during the late spring and summer months, and decline in September. As recently as this week, on Tuesday, there were tornado warnings in the Windsor region in southwestern Ontario, but we should now see such weather begin to taper off.
Canada does not have an established tornado-prone zone, like the U. But tornadoes tend to occur in the southern Prairie provinces southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and southern Ontario into southern Quebec. According to Mr. Sills, the southern part of Saskatchewan is the most-prevalent area. What to do in case of a tornado.
Follow Shelby Blackley on Twitter: shelbyblackley Opens in a new window. If you don't have a basement, go to the centre of an interior room on the lowest level away from corners, windows, doors and outside walls - put as many walls as possible between you and the outside. Get under a sturdy piece of furniture — use your arms to protect your head and neck.
Don't open windows. If you're outdoors: don't wait until you see the tornado to get inside if you can't get inside, lie flat in a ditch or depression and cover your head with your hands don't go under an overpass or bridge - you're safer in a low, flat area If you're in a mobile home: Go to the nearest sturdy building or shelter immediately. Mobile homes do not offer much protection from tornadoes.
Once outside, he says to avoid re-entering the building until your restoration partner and, if need be, a structural engineer, have had a chance to properly assess it. Your business or property may have been one of several in your neighbourhood to suffer damage, in which case, regaining safe access may take even longer as municipal authorities assess the damage and work on repairs to power lines and other infrastructure.
In the longer run, when building new or renovating, business and property owners should invest in more wind-resistant building materials, stronger windows, and other measures to make their buildings more resistant to tornado damage — above and beyond the current building code, Mandeville says. Need an account?
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