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By David Opinko

Egg-sized hail during July 7 tornado in Southern Alberta

Jul 11, 2022 | 1:23 PM

BERGEN, AB – Environment Canada is releasing more information about a tornado that hit an area in southwestern Alberta last week.

In an update posted Sunday night, the weather forecaster says they received the first report of a funnel cloud/tornado near Bergen, Alberta around 2:32 pm on Thursday, July 7, 2022. Bergen is located approximately 100 kilometres northwest of Calgary.

The tornado moved east as Environment Canada’s last report came in around 3:10 pm outside the nearby community of Shantz.

While RCMP had previously reported that nine homes were damaged as a result of the tornado, Environment Canada now says four houses and four trees were hit.

Environment Canada says large hail was observed in several communities in Southern Alberta during the weather event:

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• Jumping Pound: Chicken Egg (5 cm)
• Oyen: Golf Ball (4.5 cm)
• Killam: Golf Ball (4.5 cm)
• Acadia Valley: Ping Pong (3.5 cm)
• Shantz: Ping Pong (3.5 cm)
• Calgary: Loonie (2.7 cm)
• Didsbury: Quarter (2.4 cm)
• Crimson Lake: Nickel (2.1cm)

The agency also noted wind gusts up to 104 km/hr in Calgary.

An Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale rating for the tornado is not yet available.

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