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Environment Canada confirms tornado touched down near Barnwell Saturday
BARNWELL, AB – Weather investigators have released their updated findings on this past weekend’s severe storms in Southern Alberta.
Meteorologist Alysa Pederson previously told LNN that they were looking into three possible tornados from Saturday, June 13 – one near Barnwell, one southeast of Calgary, and one near McNab.
Upon reviewing photos and videos of the supercell storm, it has now been confirmed that a twister touched ground approximately 10 km south of Barnwell around 7:58 pm.
It had estimated wind speeds of 90-130 km per hour, putting it in the smallest tornado category of EF-0.