PHOTOS: See the damage in Barrhaven after two tornadoes swept through

A pair of tornadoes touched down in the Barrhaven area on Thursday, July 13, researchers with Western University’s Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) confirmed.

Two separate EF1 tornadoes swept through Barrhaven, which caused damage to at least 125 homes.

NTP says a 200 metre-wide tornado tore a path of damage five kilometres long that crossed paths with an earlier tornado that was 150 metres wide and whose damage was calculated at one metre in length.

“Based on the structural damage, a maximum wind speed of 155 km/h hour was estimated, which falls in the EF1 category on the EF scale. That applies to both tornadoes,” NTP said based on evidence and analysis conducted so far.

Ottawa has been hit with a string of severe storms in recent years. In September 2018, six tornadoes touched down in several places in the Ottawa area and across the river in Gatineau, Que.

Dozens of homes were damaged and 25 people were injured. One tornado struck a city power station cutting power to about half the city’s homes, some for several days.