B.C.'s 1st tornado of 2025 recorded near Vanderhoof, says Environment Canada

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· Posted: May 24, 2025 8:08 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

British Columbia's archetypal tornado of the twelvemonth touched down adjacent the municipality of Vanderhoof earlier this week. 

A study from Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project said a landspout-type tornado occurred connected Wednesday day adjacent the assemblage of approximately 4,000 people, located astir 80 kilometres westbound of Prince George.

It said 2 videos of the tornado were captured, and no harm has been reported.

Ross Macdonald, a elder meteorologist with Environment Canada, confirmed that a tornado occurred adjacent Vanderhoof astir 1:30 p.m. PT Wednesday.

He said it was the archetypal tornado of the twelvemonth successful British Columbia and was rated an EF-0 — the lowest measurement on the enhanced Fujita scale  — which means it was precise weak.

Macdonald said the landspout tornado was apt generated by anemic rotation nether rapidly increasing clouds oregon anemic thunderstorms.

"Generally, erstwhile we talk of these landspout tornadoes, they don't usually origin important damage, but they tin inactive beryllium unsafe arsenic they tin topple trees," he said.