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Egg-sized hail during July 7 tornado in Southern Alberta
Jul 11, 2022 | 12:17 PM
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BERGEN, AB – Environment Canada is releasing more information about a tornado that hit an area in southwestern Alberta last week.
In an update posted Sunday night, the weather forecaster says they received the first report of a funnel cloud/tornado near Bergen, Alberta around 2:32 pm on Thursday, July 7, 2022. Bergen is located approximately 100 kilometres northwest of Calgary.
The tornado moved east as Environment Canada’s last report came in around 3:10 pm outside the nearby community of Shantz.
While RCMP had previously reported that nine homes were damaged as a result of the tornado, Environment Canada now says four houses and many trees were hit.
