Saturday’s tornado caused no fatalities and only one injury while it carved a 15.3-kilometre-long swath in a rural area between the towns of Didsbury and Carstairs
A combine weighing nearly 10,000 kg was tossed approximately 50 metres and then rolled another 50 by Saturday's tornado.Only 1 per cent of all tornadoes reported in Canada are strong enough to be classified as EF4 or the equivalent F4 designation that was used prior to 2013.
A key goal of the Northern Tornadoes Project is to build a detailed database of all the tornadoes that occur in Canada and monitor the results for emerging trends in the frequency, intensity, location and time of year of tornadoes that may be affected by climate change or other factors. Meanwhile, cleanup efforts resumed on the third day since the disaster with more than 100 volunteers participating. The tornado ravaged through the region’s agricultural community, affecting mostly farmers of hay, canola, wheat and barley, said Mountain View County Reeve Angela Aalbers.
So far, damages are considered insurable and do not qualify for the province’s disaster recovery funding, Hunter Baril, press secretary for Alberta’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services, told The Globe and Mail in an interview on Sunday.
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