Environment Canada and Tornadoes?

[snopro]

Why is it that Environment Canada is so reluctant to call the aftermath of a storm a tornado? Eye witnesses have been told otherwise and there was even video of one in Alberta this year on TV that was denied. The new favourite term of there's is wind sheer or straight line winds. What's the reasoning here?

 

[ferniesnow]

I don't know the scientific knowledge behind a lot of things that weather forecasters doo or are supposed to know. I doo know that "sheer" or as the locals call it "plow" winds come through our area and cause havoc with the trees. It is usually with changing "fronts" and the wind will be extreme, making the trees rock and roll and then the calm as we get into the changing weather and then the tail end of the "front" and things start moving again.

There are a couple places along highway #22 where all the tops of the poplars have been sheered off in a relatively small area and it looked like a tornado zone but no mention of a tornado from the weather guys. Strange, eh!

 

[barleyfarmer]

Another one they like to use is microburst!We had a 'microburst' in our area year before last that twisted poplar trees off and took down a few guys sheds and flipped graineries!It was about few hundred yards wide by a couple miles long!But according to them it wasn't a tornado even though the trees were all twisted off!!Makes you wonder if they aren't in cahoots with the insurance companies!!Maybe they have to pay out more if it is a tornado!!

 

[northern bear]

Probably has to do with the path of damage. If its straight line, I would think more plow winds. Tornadoes kinda meander. There was a small one along hwy 757 at Sangudo about 10 years ago and you could clearly see the path it took going from one side of the hwy to the other. Was back and forth like that for a mile or so before it took out an old barn and a pole shed.

 

[imdoo'n]

been in a hurricane, and real close to the pine lake tornado, don't care to see either again, friggin dangerous

 

[ferniesnow]

Another one they like to use is microburst!We had a 'microburst' in our area year before last that twisted poplar trees off and took down a few guys sheds and flipped graineries!It was about few hundred yards wide by a couple miles long!But according to them it wasn't a tornado even though the trees were all twisted off!!Makes you wonder if they aren't in cahoots with the insurance companies!!Maybe they have to pay out more if it is a tornado!!

A few years ago, I was in the process of putting in an insurance claim for windows (seals were popped after a "plow" wind) and the insurance people not so politely said, "We've never heard of that before."

All said and done, I didn't put in the claim and just paid for the friggin' glass, installed them myself (still on the honey doo list), and I'm much further ahead with the finances of that bunch of BS.

 

[imdoo'n]

A few years ago, I was in the process of putting in an insurance claim for windows (seals were popped after a "plow" wind) and the insurance people not so politely said, "We've never heard of that before."

All said and done, I didn't put in the claim and just paid for the friggin' glass, installed them myself (still on the honey doo list), and I'm much further ahead with the finances of that bunch of BS.

next time it was billy and his sling shot?

 

[ferniesnow]

next time it was billy and his sling shot?

not to hy-jack the thread but the friggin' insurance????? There is no deductible on glass. They would divide the price of the glass into 3 for an increase on my insurance for the next three years. Take away the % deduction for no claims for 5 years.

Insurance is only good for the big one! and in BC if it is floods, forget it.

 

[Bogger]

Edmonton is currently under a tornado watch....

 

[northern bear]

As well as the rest of central Alberta from Vegreville west to Barrhead, and Athabasca south to Tofield.

 

[scotts]

Hmmm!! They never issue a "Plow wind" warning tho do they??

 

[byronkentgraham]

Why is it that Environment Canada is so reluctant to call the aftermath of a storm a tornado? Eye witnesses have been told otherwise and there was even video of one in Alberta this year on TV that was denied. The new favourite term of there's is wind sheer or straight line winds. What's the reasoning here?

I don't know if you know the Williamsons from Lomond, but he called to report a tornado couple weeks ago and the lady said "No, there was no tornado out there." He said well my semi on it's side in my silage pit says differently.

 

[snopro]

I don't know if you know the Williamsons from Lomond, but he called to report a tornado couple weeks ago and the lady said "No, there was no tornado out there." He said well my semi on it's side in my silage pit says differently.

I've heard of them and heard that story as well. Classic story about what I am talking about. I just don't know where the reluctance is on EC 's part.

 

[whoDEANie]

Apparently there's no such thing as rats or cockroaches in Alberta either.

 

[plio7]

The said the one reported in camrose today didn't happen either

 

[Bogger]

And it's sunny skies & lollie pops here at home too....

The said the one reported in camrose today didn't happen either

 

[plio7]

May come crash your basement if the clouds above my place don't stop swirling

 

[d mills]

The said the one reported in camrose today didn't happen either

I'll post a pic of it when I get my laptop. Can't from this chitty BB.

 

[plio7]

I'll post a pic of it when I get my laptop. Can't from this chitty BB.

They even showed a pic of it on the news

 

[d mills]

They even showed a pic of it on the news

The one i have is from near hay lakes. Funnel cloud was up and down a few times. Its kind of a chitty pic but I was close enough for my liking.