{"id":733634,"date":"2026-06-13T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:19:24","slug":"tornado-that-destroyed-alameda-farm-was-strongest-in-sask-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/733634\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado that destroyed Alameda farm was strongest in Sask. since 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tornado that flattened an Alameda farmyard on Tuesday<\/a> was the strongest Saskatchewan has seen in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

The Northern Tornadoes Project, a research group based at Western University, assigned the tornado a preliminary rating of EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which can have wind speeds from 225-265 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n

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The last tornado in the province to receive a similar rating destroyed homes on Kawacatoose First Nation on July 2, 2010.<\/p>\n

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A tornado swept through the Brock family\u2019s farmyard on Tuesday, toppling trees and destroying much of their home. (Gillian Massie\/980 CJME)<\/p>\n

Dylan Painchaud-Niemi, a research meteorologist with the Northern Tornadoes Project, was out surveying the wreckage left at the farm south of Alameda<\/a>. He said ratings that high are fairly uncommon in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fairly rare for it to hit a property, and especially at this magnitude,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Painchaud-Niemi said the research group was still figuring out the path of the tornado that tore through the farmyard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Danny Brock said he and three of his kids hid in the basement bathroom after he saw the tornado coming up his drive on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

He said he heard the growl of the wind as his home was shredded apart above his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what goes through your head when something like this is happening? Hope to God that you\u2019re going to make it alive,\u201d Brock said.<\/p>\n

Nobody in the family was hurt, but the family\u2019s dog died during the storm.<\/p>\n

\"Wreckage<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brock family looks for clothing and other items scattered around their yard after a tornado. (Gillian Massie\/980 CJME)<\/p>\n

Painchaud-Niemi said the family was very lucky to escape without injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a miracle. I\u2019m really happy that no one was hurt at all,\u201d Painchaud-Niemi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust unfortunately, you have to deal with the massive cleanup and rebuilding.<\/p>\n

An online fundraising page<\/a> has been set up to help the Brock family with expenses after the destructive storm.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada\u2019s early data clocked the tornado\u2019s wind speeds at 245 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n

Meteorologist Terri Lang said tornadoes that strong can form when warm, humid air triggers the surface of a thunderstorm in motion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other important piece is the way the winds occur in the upper atmosphere,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need them to kind of turn as they go up through the atmosphere and strengthen, and that allows the storm to kind of grow on its own, and also allows it to spin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lang said Environment Canada meteorologists are still determining the path of the twister and looking through radar scans for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tornado that flattened an Alameda farmyard on Tuesday was the strongest Saskatchewan has seen in more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-733634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}