The weak tornado that touched down at University Golf Club a year ago this Sunday came as a blessing to Prof. Roland Stull. He teaches a meteorology of storms course at University of B.C.
The weak tornado that touched down at University Golf Club a year ago this Sunday came as a blessing to Prof. Roland Stull.
Campus surveillance video released from UBC under freedom of information shows what happened 2 kilometres west of the golf course: wind, heavy rain and hail.“The atmospheric ingredients were there for this kind of rotation to develop,” said Dave Sills, a former Environment Canada severe weather scientist who is co-leader of the National Tornadoes Project at University of Western Ontario.
“That ended up being track length of 3.9 or so kilometres with a maximum path width of 310 meters, and that was pretty much coming straight up from the south,” Sills said. “It’s 190 degrees, so it's a little bit west of south but almost straight from the south with the supercell thunderstorm that developed over the water. It just kept going north.”
NTP and its new companion, the National Hail Project, are based at UWO in London, Ont., with a mission to detect, document and assess data about the respective weather phenomena across Canada.
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