A page from Michael Newark's archives detailing the August 1979 tornado that hit Woodstock and Waterford, Ont.
A trove of documents detailing more than two centuries of tornado events in Canada is now available to anyone with an internet connection, thanks to the work of the Northern Tornadoes Project and former Environment Canada meteorologist Michael Newark.Recently unearthed film footage shows the devastating F4 tornado that struck Woodstock and Waterford in August 1979.
The archive's namesake collected most of the material in the 1970s and 1980s while working as a meteorologist with Environment Canada. The seed for the idea was planted after Newark appeared on CBC Radio in Toronto in April 1974 to discuss a The result was an unprecedented database of Canadian twisters that has proven valuable for researchers in the years since, including the NTP, which was founded with a similar goal of documenting every tornado that touches down in Canada.
"There's a lot of information that's not related to the tornadoes directly in there that's also interesting. Little side notes about how people reacted, or kinds of damage that was odd."
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