Recently unearthed film footage shows the devastating F4 tornado that struck Woodstock and Waterford in August 1979. The Super 8 footage, filmed by a Woodstock resident, was found in the newly unveiled Michael Newark Digitized Tornado Archive at Western University.
A trove of documents detailing more than two centuries of tornado events in Canada is now available to anyone with an internet connection.
The files were housed in Environment Canada’s archives, and have been digitized and posted online as part of a multi-year project spearheaded by the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) at Western University in London, Ont.
Officially unveiled last week by the research group, The Michael Newark Digitized Tornado Archive includes reports, photographs and news clippings of Canadian tornadoes going back to the country’s first recorded twister in 1792.
The archive’s namesake collected most of the material in the 1970s and 1980s while working as a meteorologist with Environment …