This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Hydro One has officially confirmed that 4,000 customers in the Grand Bend area are in the dark for the moment and might have to remain without electricity until 10 p.m. while crews work to repair various hydro lines downed by a suspected Tornado and strong winds on Sunday night. According to Environment Canada, it has yet to determine whether a tornado formed during the inconvincibly strong storm, which caused huge destruction, brought down a number of trees and caused damage to several homes and parked cars.
Several reports have confirmed to have sighted funnel clouds in Grand Bend and in Millbank, i.e. North West of Kitchener, soon after tornado warnings were issued at around 7 p.m. on Sunday night. According to an Environment Canada representative, Ria Olsen, the impact of this storm was widespread and “the areas that didn’t see funnel clouds still had a lot of rain, and some hail and strong winds.” Olsen added that “in fact, the strongest wind we had reported was 108km/h gust in Dresden, and that’s just east of St. Claire.” So she concluded that “conditions were favourable for tornadoes to occur.”
Additionally, Olsen elucidated that “we were looking at the radar signatures, and it would suggest it. We actually went ‘tornado warning’, and also we had some reports of funnel clouds, and of the damage, so trees down, powerlines down. Typically, depending on the tree, it takes some pretty strong winds to bring them down, so everything is pointing towards a tornado as a possibility.”
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