Tornado touches down in Ayr, Ont., causing heavy damage to business, fire chief says [Video]

This video submitted by Jenna Hammond shows a tornado touching down in Ayr, Ont.. It reportedly caused heavy damage to a Home Hardware, according to Township of North Dumfries Fire Chief Robert Shantz. This comes as a large area around Waterloo region was under a tornado warning Saturday morning. There are no reports of injuries. Several surrounding businesses were evacuated.

A tornado touched down in Ayr, Ont., Saturday morning, the local fire chief says, following an emergency tornado warning issued by Environment Canada.

The weather agency’s meteorologists say they were tracking a severe thunderstorm near Plattsville that could produce a tornado, prompting them to issue the official tornado warning for parts of Waterloo region and surrounding areas.

North Dumfries Fire Chief Robert Shantz confirmed to CBC News a tornado did touch down around 11 a.m.

Environment Canada has not yet confirmed the weather system touched down, but told CBC News …