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Environment Canada confirms second tornado touched down June 17

Staff CTV Barrie
Published Friday, June 20, 2014 4:51PM EDT

CTV Barrie: Storm leaves mark around the region

Environment Canada confirmed June 20, 2014 it was an EF1 tornado that sent this barn flying into this house in Innisfil June 17.

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Environment Canada has confirmed a second tornado touched down in this area June 17.

This second tornado touched down in Stroud at about 5:30 p.m., about 10 minutes after a separate tornado left more than 100 homes in Angus damaged.

The pair of tornados was spawned by a cold front moving through the area; that system also generated a number of severe thunderstorms.

The Stroud tornado is classified as an EF1 – the Angus tornado is being called a high EF2 – and had winds between 155 km/h and 175 km/h. It travelled about 750 metres and was a maximum of 300 metres wide.

It picked up a drive shed in Stroud and flung it into a house, and it also snapped apart a number of mature trees.

“We went into the cellar,” homeowner Gerry Milliss told CTV News the day after the storm, before Environment Canada called it a tornado. “We heard the banging and crashing and when we came up we thought it was the roof against the house. We never thought about the barn.”