Pair of rare November tornadoes touch down in New Brunswick last week
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A research team has confirmed a pair of tornadoes touched down in central New Brunswick last week.
An Ontario-based research team has confirmed a pair of tornadoes touched down in central New Brunswick less than an hour away from one another last week.
A pair of small tornadoes made landfall in both Harvey, N.B., and Sheffield, N.B., around 5 p.m. on Friday.
Before Nov. 1, the latest tornado of a calendar year ever recorded in New Brunswick was September in the 1960s.
“The reports we have so far is that the damage was fairly minor,” says Dave Sills, executive director with the Northern Tornadoes Project out of Western University, which tracks and records all tornadoes nationwide.
Sills says the tornadoes are currently rated as EF-0, which is the lowest peg on the severity scale when it comes to measuring twisters.
The Sheffield tornado was confirmed through a video taken by resident Donny Young. Young first started taking the video only to get a shot of the big storm blowing through.
It wasn’t until after he posted the video to Facebook he realized he had caught the tornado beginning to form.
