Canada’s first Tornado of 2023 happened near Regina on the weekend, according to the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP)..Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) confirmed that the tornado touched down approximately six kilometres southeast of Regina at 8:55 p.m. on May 27..ECCC meteorologist Terri Lang has officially confirmed the claim made by the NTP, a tornado research organization at Western University..Lang said the tornado was assigned an EF0 rating, the least severe category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale used for grading tornado intensity..“The way that tornados are rated is based on the damage that they do,” said Lang..“So, if they don’t hit anything, we can’t rate them or if we give them just a preliminary rating of EF0.”.Following the "sufficient evidence" showing that the storm caused damage to a farm near Rowatt, SK. .The NTP declared the tornado as the first of 2023 in Canada..On Monday, a team from the NTP will conduct a “comprehensive assessment” of the damage caused by the tornado.
