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加拿大《多伦多星报》：强暴风雨袭击安大略

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2005年8月19日10:02 PM

加拿大《多伦多星报》：强暴风雨袭击安大略

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至少有一次龙卷风造成了大多伦多地区（Great Toronto Area：GTA）的大雨洪水。

今天下午3:39Bathurst街旁的401公路在一阵强暴风雨后交通堵塞。 MTO

THESTAR.COM STAFF AND CANADIAN PRESS

房屋零乱不堪，树木卡车翻倒在地，今天安大略的南部大部分地区遭到了暴风雨的袭击。

加拿大环保署(Environment Canada) said one likely twister left a wake of destruction near Fergus, northwest of Guelph.

气象学家杰夫-库尔森(Geoff Coulson)说，今天晚些时候会做出初步的损失估计，明天会进一步的调查来确认是否是一次龙卷风。

说：“我们有足够的强力证据推断这是一次龙卷风而不仅仅是一次强风。”

汽车被掀到沟里，房屋和车库的屋顶被掀开。破烂的干草包，木头篱笆的碎片，树木被刮断的枝条躺在路上。

Centre Wellington社区发布了紧急声明。

安大略省警察说，暴风雨直接导致当地公路至少发生一起碰撞，一名妇女受轻伤被送到医院。

Const. Keith Robb说：“目前还没有其他的伤亡报告。”

暴风雨开始于1:30 p.m.。

多伦多下午的下班时间，交通一片混乱，汽车不得不在向河流一样的街道中爬行。

第一电力公司(Hydro One)的发言人凯思琳-韦尔什(Kathleen Welsh)说，在靠近圭尔夫(Guelph)和奥兰治维尔(Orangeville)的地方，有报告说，树木刮到砸到电线。

韦尔什(Welsh)说，这造成了大约1万户的安大略居民停电。

她说，“我们还无法确定所有的损失，因为我们正在巡检电线，评估损失。”

库尔森(Coulson)无法确定电线是被龙卷风还是强风刮断。

由于暴风雨在下午继续移动，加拿大环保署(Environment Canada)对多伦多及其周边地区发布了龙卷风警告，这对这座城市来说很罕见。

在多伦多西区的布莱姆顿(Brampton)，天空阴暗，狂风尖叫着挂着树木扭来扭去，雨被吹打的一片一片斜到一边。

库尔森(Coulson)说，布莱姆顿(Brampton)的降雨达到了100毫米。

到傍晚随着恶劣的天气继续向东移动，安大略西南的龙卷风警告已经将为雷暴警告。

然而，暴风雨延误了佩尔森国际机场(Pearson International Airport) 的所有航班，大多伦多机场管理局的康妮-特纳(Connie Turner)说。

 

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Aug. 19, 2005. 10:02 PM
 
 

 
 
Severe storms hammer Ontario
At least one tornado reported as heavy rains create flood conditions in GTA

Traffic on Hwy. 401 at Bathurst St. moves through an intense storm at 3:39 this afternoon. MTO

THESTAR.COM STAFF AND CANADIAN PRESS

Homes were ripped apart, trees downed and trucks overturned today after much of southern Ontario was lashed by storms that spawned several possible tornadoes.
Environment Canada said one likely twister left a wake of destruction near Fergus, northwest of Guelph.

Meteorologist Geoff Coulson said late today that a preliminary assessment of the damage was done, but added investigators would be back out tomorrow to corroborate whether a tornado had hit.

“We’ve had a lot of strong evidence to indicate that it probably was a tornado as opposed to just strong wind gusts,” Coulson said.

Cars were tossed into a ditch and roofs were ripped from homes and barns. Tattered bales of hay, jagged fragments of wooden fences and severed tree branches lay strewn about.

A state of emergency was declared in the community of Centre Wellington, which includes Fergus.

Ontario Provincial Police said the storm directly contributed to at least one collision on a local highway, sending one woman to hospital with minor injuries.

“As far as we know there are no other reported injuries,” said Const. Keith Robb.

The severe series of storms that began around 1:30 p.m., just east of Milverton, near Stratford, also caused flooding in some areas.

Toronto’s afternoon commute was snarled as cars were forced to plow through highways that in places resembled rivers.

In nearby Guelph and Orangeville, there were reports of trees knocking down power lines, said Hydro One spokeswoman Kathleen Welsh.

As a result, close to 10,000 Ontario residents were left without electricity, Welsh said.

“We’re not sure what all the damage is yet because we are still patrolling the lines and assessing the damage,” she said.

Coulson couldn’t confirm whether the downed power lines were the result of a tornado or strong winds.

As the storm advanced through the afternoon, Environment Canada issued a tornado warning for Toronto — a rarity for the city — and its surrounding areas.

“We received a report from a volunteer storm spotter of a tornado in (northern Toronto),” Coulson said. “But we haven’t been able to verify if there was any damage or if anyone else saw this.”

In some parts of the city, the sky was tinged green by sunlight reflecting off falling hail.

In Brampton, west of Toronto, skies grew ominously dark as screeching winds contorted trees and drove sheets of rain sideways.

Up to 100 millimetres of rain was reported to have fallen in Brampton, Coulson said.

“We’ve got standing water on the roads three-quarters of the way up on to hubcaps,” he said.

By late afternoon, many of the tornado warnings in southwestern Ontario were downgraded to severe thunderstorm warnings as the severe weather moved further east.

However, the storms delayed flights departing from Pearson International Airport throughout the day, said Connie Turner of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority.

 

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