Video: Funnel cloud destruction in Coniston

More videos are emerging of the funnel cloud or tornado in Coniston on Oct. 15.

Natalie Paquet posted security footage taken outside her home in Coniston that shows her lawn furniture being lifted off the ground. In the video, you can see a piece of her eavestrough fly off the side of the house and the baskball net being pushed over by the high winds.

Contacted by NorthernLife.ca earlier today, an Environment Canada spokesperson said he hadn't received any reports of a funnel cloud making “significant contact” with the ground or causing any damage.

“To be a full-fledged tornado we normally talk about those surface winds rotating at speeds of 90 km/h or more, because that's when we start to see noticeable damage,” said Geoff Coulson, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment Canada. “This one may have been a possible tornado, but at this point in time it doesn't look like it had that surface vortex of winds that was strong enough to create any noticeable damage.”

Environment Canada is asking the public to share any photos or video from Thursday's storm to their storm watch email address, at [email protected].

As reported this morning, Stewart Hoskins emailed NorthernLife.ca to say he witnessed the funnel cloud and shot a photo of it at around 2:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon, saying it touched down on Walter Street in Coniston.

“There were multiple trees snapped, shingles torn off of roofs and a huge trampoline that had been lifted and flung about 200 feet,” he said in an email to NorthernLife.ca.