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A massive wind and electrical storm rolled in off Lake Huron, causing widespread damage to trees and property, along with hail and heavy rains. Tina Filion took
this photo of the storm cell approaching Lucknow while she was on Holyrood Line in Huron -Kinloss.
Lucknow wind damage from downburst
Rob Gowan
Owen Sound Sun Times
Environment Canada believes
damage in the Lucknow area from
last Sunday's storm is from a down -
burst of wind and not a tornado.
On Thursday, the weather
agency had a team in the area of
the village in southern Bruce
County assessing the damage from
the storm, and concluded it wasn't
consistent with the type of damage
caused by a tornado, warning pre-
paredness meteorologist Peter
Kimbell said Friday.
"There were a lot of structures dam-
aged," said Kimbell. "In Lucknow it
was straight-line winds from a down -
burst, not from a tornado, which
explains the kind of more spread out
characteristics of the damage:'
In a weather summary released
by Environment Canada on Friday
afternoon it said the damage area
at Lucknow was approximately four
kilometres long and two kilometres
wide. Between 100 and 150 mature
trees were knocked down and a
riding stable was destroyed, while
there was also damage to some
large vehicles and some roof
damage.
Kimbell said if the damage in the
Lucknow had been from a tornado,
there would have been a much nar-
rower path of intense damage.
Kimbell said the downburst in
the Lucknow area likely had winds
of EF -1 severity — between 135 and
175 kilometres per hour — on the
enhanced Fujita scale.
"It is not common to have down -
bursts with that strength, but it can
happen," Kimbell said. "It has hap-
pened before:'
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