Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project says a downburst that brought 115 kilometre an hour winds sparked a storm that left heavy damage in Mallorytown.
Officials with the group say they surveyed the damage left behind after last weekend’s storm and say an EF0 downburst hit the area.
They say a trail of damage was found over an area nine kilometres long and up to five kilometres wide.
Acting Director for the Northern Tornadoes Project Dr. Connell Miller tells Moose FM there are some key differences between a tornado and a downburst.
“A tornado you tend to get long thin paths of damage whereas a downburst it tends to be a very wide swath of damage, usually more localized and all of the debris tends to be in the same direction.”
Police say an Ottawa man was killed after a large tree fell and crushed a tent he was staying in at a campground in Mallorytown during the storm.
His 10-year-old daughter suffered a serious but non-life-threatening head injury.
