Possible tornado spotted in Central Alberta
Posted Aug 22, 2016 7:16 am.
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Environment Canada is looking into reports of a tornado up near Edson, west of Edmonton.
Meteorologist Dave Carlsen says it happened just after 9 p.m., Sunday.
“It’s very likely that there was a tornado, but we will likely determine that for sure throughout the day (Monday),” he said.
Environment Canada believes the storm passed over a rural area, so it likely didn’t do much damage.
Carlsen says the weather system was a bit of an anomaly as it’s getting late in the year for such an extreme storm, but he points out it’s been a bit of a strange summer as a whole on the weather front in Alberta.
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