Alberta tornado severely damages homes southeast of Sundre on wild weather day
Posted Jul 7, 2022 7:48 pm.
Last Updated Jul 7, 2022 11:12 pm.
RCMP say more than half a dozen homes were damaged northwest of Calgary near the community of Shantz after a tornado touched down Thursday afternoon.
Officers from Olds, Didsbury and Sundre detachments have been going door-to-door in the community southeast of Sundre and confirm there have been no fatalities.
“We were notified that there were about six to nine houses in the Sundre/Didsbury area that received significant damage,” said Cpl. Gina Slaney with the RCMP, Southern Alberta District.
“(Officers) walked door-to-door, house-to-house, to do a head count and to make sure everybody was accounted for.”
Slaney says at first there was concern for some of the residents and their whereabouts.
“For a short time, there was an inkling that there might have been two kids that were missing, but they were found shortly after and they’re totally safe.”
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The tornado warning was first issued for the area just before 3 p.m.
Another set of storms moved through Calgary around 5 p.m. with heavy rain and hail leading to flash flooding in parts of the city.
A severe thunderstorm watch for the city of Calgary has now ended and all tornado watches have also ended for the rest of Alberta.
A landscape view of the tornado that touched down earlier Thursday, July 7, 2022 in Alberta. (Photo: Neville Johnson, Prairie Thunder Storm Chasers)
Hail in NW Calgary (July 7, 2022)
–With files from Todd Kaufman
