Category: alberta tornado

Alberta Storm Chaser Seeks to ‘Help People Understand How Storms Work’

Alberta storm chaser Tom Graham still remembers the worst tornado in the province’s history, from 36 years ago when he was a child in elementary school. He was on summer vacation, visiting the newly opened wave pool and waterpark at West Edmonton Mall, when a powerful F4 tornado tore through east Edmonton and the surrounding…


Alberta’s Canada Day Tornado Rated EF4, Second-Highest Since Deadly Edmonton Tornado in ’87

The 275 km/hour tornado that left a path of destruction in Alberta’s Mountain View County on Canada Day has been declared by weather experts as the most powerful tornado to whip through the province in almost 40 years. According to a preliminary assessment issued July 4 by Environment Canada, assisted by the Western University Northern Tornadoes…