A person examining the damage from an EF0 tornado in Melancthon on June 22, 2024. Photo provided by the Northern Tornadoes Project.A person examining the damage from an EF0 tornado in Melancthon on June 22, 2024. Photo provided by the Northern Tornadoes Project.
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Tornado damaged trees, wind turbine in Melancthon: NTP

There is confirmation it was a tornado that uprooted and snapped trees and damaged a wind turbine late last month in Melancthon.

Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) made the determination that an EF-0 tornado was produced by the storm that rolled through the northwest corner of Dufferin County on June 22. NTP investigators conducted ground and drone surveys in the wake of the storm. Those were completed last Thursday. Satellite imagery was also used to find some isolated tree damage related to the twister.

Other damage found included trees that were either snapped or uprooted entirely. The blade of a wind turbine was scraped up when it briefly made contact with its pedestal due to the powerful winds.

According to NTP, the EF0 had an estimated maximum wind speed of 115 kilometres an hour. It left a path of destruction that was 1.37 kilometres long and 140 metres wide.

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