Environment Canada has confirmed the storm that roared through Grey County on Thursday produced an F-2 tornado.
That means it had sustained winds of 180 to 240 kilometres per hour.
Warning Preparedness Meteorologist Geoff Coulson tells Bayshore Broadcasting News the town of Durham is lucky the storm didn’t go right thru the more populated area.
Coulson says it is tragic a young boy died, but it could have been much worse.
An 11 year old boy from West Grey was killed Thursday during the storm while at a day camp at the Durham Conservation Area.
He says an F-2 tornado is capable of ripping off the roof of a house, or moving vehicles around.
Coulson says the storm was somewhat unusual in that the tornado strikes were not limited to one or two areas.
There is severe damage in Durham, some damage in Markdale, and severe damage again in Vaughan, just north of Toronto.
As well, Environment Canada is investigating reports of damage in a number of other locations including Craigleith, near Collingwood.
Environment Canada says along with the F-2 tornado in Durham, it was an F-2 tornado that hit Vaughan, just outside Toronto.
There some 200 homes were so severely damaged they will have to be destroyed.
