Tornado believed to have touched down on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast during storm

During Monday’s wicked windstorm, it present appears a tornado touched down connected the Sunshine Coast.

The tornado is suspected of touching down betwixt Half Moon Bay and Sechelt conscionable earlier 11 a.m.

According to the Northern Tornadoes Project, the “weak late-season tornado” was 1 successful a enactment of storms connected Nov. 4.

It felled trees, which fell connected powerfulness lines, concisely blocking roads including the Sunshine Coast Highway.

Resident Lynn Smith was driving connected the road erstwhile she saw the beardown winds prime up and rapidly pulled a U-turn.

“I’m leaving and I’m going ‘Oh my God’ ’cause I tin spot successful the rearview mirror,” she told Global News.

“It’s surreal, histrion aft histrion coming down similar dominoes behind. Then I’m thinking, ‘This is not right, I mightiness not get retired of here.'”

The Northern Tornadoes Project has recorded 2 different tornadoes successful the state since 1980, including 1 adjacent UBC connected Nov. 6, 2021.

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Environment Canada has not yet confirmed Monday’s lawsuit arsenic a tornado.