Weather experts confirm tornado touched down in Lucan during Monday's storm

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 02, 2025 8:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 2

Weather experts astatine Western University person officially classified the tempest that struck Lucan, Ont. Monday arsenic a tornado.

New details were released pursuing a preliminary crushed survey by researchers with the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) who looked astatine the damaged to a workplace property, trees and crops.

"Thankfully, nary 1 was injured by flying debris connected the highway," David Sills from NTP said. 

The tornado archetypal struck a acceptable of sheds southwest of Lucan, according to Sills, tearing disconnected the roof and blowing it into a tract down a adjacent house.

The funnel unreality then entered a wheat field, moving toward Highway 4, wherever it damaged immoderate trees.Finally, it made its mode done a cornfield connected the eastbound broadside of the road earlier dissipating.

NTP has since investigated the harm connected the crushed and much in-depth details volition beryllium released connected Wednesday afternoon.

"The patterns that it near successful the wheat tract are going to beryllium truly absorbing for america to study," Sills added, explaining that the patterns that tornadoes permission whitethorn beryllium adjuvant successful gauging intensity.

NTP classified the tornado arsenic an EF0, which is the slightest terrible classification connected the Enhanced Fujita Scale utilized by meteorologists. The standing indicates upwind speeds of 90 to 130 km/h, arsenic good arsenic insignificant harm inflicted connected structures and vegetation.

Most tornadoes seen successful the portion person this rating, but Sills stressed that they tin inactive airs a threat.

"If you hap to beryllium successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time, you tin inactive beryllium severely injured," helium said. "There was 1 southbound of London a fewer years agone wherever a two-by-four was enactment close done a edifice wall, and that was an EF0 arsenic well, so, immoderate tornado is dangerous." 

A tornado alert was sent to galore compartment phones connected Monday day crossed southwestern Ontario but the informing was withdrawn from the Environment Canada website 12 minutes later.