Newark tornado archive officially launched
The NTP and 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Libraries officially launched the Michael Newark Digitized Tornado Archive yesterday, July 25. Newark spent countless hours creating the first database of Canadian tornadoes, with many hundreds of physical files covering the late 1700s to the 1980s. Environment Canada (EC) provided the NTP with digitized copies of these physical archives as well as files related to other EC tornado initiatives. NTP and 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Libraries have made these digitized files available via .
Photo of the the main contributors to the Newark tornado archive project (from left, Dave Sills, Jordan Fuller, Joanne Paterson, Arielle Vanderschans, Michael Newark with his new NTP hoodie, Maia Somers, Liz Sutherland and Sydney Payne; absent are Anij Sparenberg and Julianne Ho who were - ironically - in the field doing tornado damage survey work).
Since Ontario tornado files were available first, these were the first to be uploaded and are now complete. But scans from all other locations across Canada are now being examined and uploaded as well.
The Newark Archive serves as a testament to the effort required to build a national database. And the NTP has done its best to follow in Newark’s footsteps and provide the highest quality documentation for all events that we detect and assess.
In some cases, the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) has been able to use the source material here to enhance our historical event documentation. In other cases, the NTP has been able to update or revise historical events that are contained in the Newark archive as we come upon new evidence, or new science.
The Newark Archive is full of irreplaceable material like news clippings, photos, investigation reports (see an example below) and analyses. Much of it up to the 1980s is Michael Newark's work though in some cases additional materials, analysis and interpretation has been added by various projects. The event summaries are taken from the most up-to-date material in the file.
Now that these archives are officially available to public for the first time, we hope people will take the time to visit and explore the documents - all the way back to Canada's first documented tornado in 1792!
Digitized copy of Newark's Tornado Project Summary Sheet completed for the F4 tornado that hit Windsor, ON in 1946 - a catastrophic event that is still among the top 10 worst tornadoes in Canadian history.
