ICLR to host seminar on understanding tornadoes in Canada

The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction will hold a workshop on understanding tornadoes in Canada on March 21.

“Recent work on identifying ‘tornado prone’ regions of Canada for the National Building Code of Canada has led to a much-improved understanding of where tornadoes most frequently occur and where strong to violent tornadoes are most likely,” ICLR says.

“This work involved assembling a new 30-year national tornado database covering the years 1980-2009. High-quality lightning data from the Canadian Lightning Detection Network were then used in a novel way to fill gaps in the tornado data related to low population density.

“The Enhanced Fujita Scale has also been recently introduced in Canada and will serve to further improve the accuracy of Canadian tornado data.”

Part of its ongoing Friday Forum series, the event will host Dr. David Sills, a severe weather scientist with the Cloud Physics and Severe Weather research division of Environment Canada.

He is also an adjunct professor at York University in Toronto and has worked on issues related to mesoscale meteorology and summer severe weather for the past 20 years.

The workshop will be held at ICLR’s offices at 120 Richmond St. East in downtown Toronto from 10:00am to 11:30am.

The event will also be streamed live online via Webex webcast at https://iclr.webex.com/iclr/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=665491872

• Password: Sills
• Conference Call number:
  • Local: 416-343-2657
  • Toll free: 1-866-440-8938
• Conference ID: 1712397#

RSVP: Tracy Waddington (twaddington@iclr.org)