Photo Special: Tornado in Ontario

Tornado Hits Ontario Canada

Last Thursday vicious storms tore through parts of southern Ontario in Canada killing a young boy.

As you’ll see in the photo gallery below damage was widespread with roofs torn off houses, buildings damaged and trees uprooted.

Investigators have determined that an F2-strength tornado, with minimum wind gusts of 180 kilometres per hour, hit the Vaughan region north of Toronto on Thursday afternoon. A second tornado touched down in Newmarket, about 40 kilometres north of Vaughan.

Severe weather also hit the Durham and Collingwood areas although officials haven’t been able to confirm the storms there were tornadoes.

Officials in Durham and Vaughan have declared states of emergency, with Vaughan Mayor Linda Jackson describing the damage there as “catastrophic.”