A Weak Tornado Has Been Confirmed In South Ottawa
Investigators from Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project were sent to the Franktown area of Beckwith Township, Ont., next to Ottawa to examine the damage after Wednesday afternoon’s storms. They found damage starting around the Lanark County-Ottawa border, moving east around Franktown Road in Richmond. It is classified as an EF0 tornado (on a wind intensity scale of zero to five) with maximum wind speeds of about 125 km/h. The area is located approximately 50 kilometers southwest of downtown Ottawa....