User blog comment:AkioTheTwo/Tornado Expieriences/@comment-26014793-20161231221034

Witnessed three, been under 4-5 warnings and 10-15 watches in my life. I live in southern Ontario and fairly close to "Hoosier Alley" (https://kocoweatherblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/damon22.jpg). Tornadoes are unusual here but we do get a few.

The first one I saw was a very small EF0  which touched down over a construction site a few blocks away from my house, only lasted a few seconds, was about 50 feet wide and didn't have a condensation funnel, just a dust cloud. Still, considering that I was only 8 years old at the time it was pretty terrifying to watch.

The second one was definitely the most impressive. I was working at a grocery store for my Grade 12 co-op program. At about 2 pm I noticed some people saying "look at that storm outside" so I peeked outside just in time to see a large EF2 going right through a provincial park a little over half a mile to the north. Fast-moving, *heavily* rain-wrapped and probably 200 yards wide - pretty amazing that no one was hurt. It destroyed a tractor shed and snapped some trees, but that was it. The supercell that spawned it also takes the cake for the most sinister-looking storm I've ever seen. The sky was very dark coffee brown. I remember driving past the park after I finished at work and being amazed at the number of trees laying around.

The third one was a landspout near Chesley last August. This one really took its time touching down - it was just a dangling funnel cloud for about 10 minutes, but when it did touch down it was a very nice drillbit/stovepipe. I don't believe this one was ever rated. Someone on youtube did get a video of the funnel cloud a few minutes before it touched down, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzk1yqqaRm0