Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Bouctouche
06.08.1879 · Bouctouche · New Brunswick · Canada
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Injured
10
Fatalities
5
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- wikipedia.org
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 10
- Fatalities
- 5
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 3 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
en.wikipedia.org open externally
Source
Quelle
wikipedia.org
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
The 1879 Bouctouche Tornado was a tornado that struck the town of Bouctouche, New Brunswick on Wednesday, August 6, 1879. It is estimated that the tornado was an F3 in strength, and is the easternmost major tornado in North America, though weaker tornadoes and waterspouts have been known to form in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The tornado killed 5 people, injured 10 others, and rendered 25 families homeless.
Key facts
- Date
- 06.08.1879
- Time
- 12:00:00
- Location
- Bouctouche
- Region
- New Brunswick
- Country
- Canada
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