Environment Canada confirms a scale EF1 tornado touched down in the London region over the weekend.
The brief tornado happened around 2:30pm on Saturday, bringing with it wind speeds of 175km/h between the communities of Thorndale and Bryanston.
There were several buildings damaged as a result of the extreme weather. Environment Canada says a barn had severe damage in that area, while strong winds caused by what Environment Canada calls a "microburst" in London pulled a roof off an apartment building and downed several trees. The weather agency says winds within the city reached 100km/h to 120 km/h and there was a brief microburst, which contributed to the damage.
The storms are blamed on a sharp cold front crossing southern Ontario Saturday and a weather "disturbance" moving through the region on Sunday.
This is the first report of a tornado in Ontario this year.
