Roofs torn off after possible tornado hits Quebec's Eastern Townships

Hénia Ould-Hammou · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 9:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

A almighty tempest sent trailers flying and tore roofs disconnected immoderate homes successful Danville successful Quebec's Eastern Townships connected Thursday, dumping between 50 and 100 millimetres of rain in little than 20 minutes.

The municipality southeast of Drummondville was deed by a mesocyclone-type storm, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Resident Manon Provencher said it each happened "so fast."

"It was rumbling wrong the house, clattering outside. I saw my patio furnishings alert away," she said. "I was scared, I knew it wasn't normal."

ECCC hasn't yet ruled retired a tornado, but the agency also pointed out that a mesocyclone could origin conscionable arsenic overmuch damage.

A mesocyclone is a specific benignant of tempest compartment that includes rotation and tin produce hail, beardown winds and gusts up to 100 km/h, explained metereologist Julien Pellerin.

Martine Satre, Danville's mayor, confirmed that some roofs had been torn disconnected and trailers flew distant arsenic a effect of the precocious winds.

The storm occurred soon earlier 4 p.m. and made its mode toward Saint-Georges successful Beauce, Que., astatine astir 6 p.m.

Hail stones measuring betwixt 2 and 3 centimetres successful diameter successful immoderate areas and beardown winds near important damage.

The municipality of Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth successful Beauce, astir 250 kilometres eastbound of Montreal, was besides cleaning up aft galore mature trees were blown implicit by the beardown winds. 

Mayor Francis Bélanger said galore trees and powerfulness lines inactive litter the streets of his municipality, adjacent though the cleanable up is good nether way.

Provencher and her partner, Marcel Côté, said it's the 2nd clip they've witnessed specified upwind successful the area, but that the archetypal clip wasn't connected specified a scale.

Several 1000 powerfulness outages were reported successful the country arsenic the mesocyclone passed through.