Editing Goderich, Ontario (section)

====2011 tornado====
[[File:Damage in Goderich after a tornado, August 2011.jpg|thumb|Felled trees and demolished buildings along a road in Goderich after the tornado.]]

{{Main|2011 Goderich, Ontario tornado}}

On the afternoon of 21 August 2011, an [[Fujita scale|F3]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Pope|first=Alexandra|title=F3 tornado aftermath in Goderich: Like a war zone|url=http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201109.html|access-date=23 August 2011|newspaper=The Weather Network News|date=August 23, 2011|author2=Andrea Stockton}}</ref> tornado touched down in the area, after coming ashore as a [[waterspout]], with the [[mesocyclone]] [[thunderstorm]] cell moving across [[Lake Huron]]. It was the strongest tornado that had hit Ontario since [[Southern Ontario Tornadoes of 1996#Wellington & Dufferin County tornado|the Arthur, Ontario tornado of April 20, 1996]], though on average, F3 tornadoes occur in Ontario every eight years. The devastating storm downed power lines, tore roofs from houses, and left cars and trees scattered along city streets. Hundred-year-old trees surrounding the Goderich Courthouse were uprooted in seconds.  The tornado killed one person: Norman Laberge, 61, of [[Lucknow, Ontario|Lucknow]], who was working on a dock associated with a salt mine on the coast of Lake Huron when the storm hit.  37 people were injured. The Environment Canada weather forecast office in Toronto issued a tornado warning for Goderich and southern Huron County 12 minutes before the tornado struck.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/goderich-residents-had-12-minutes-warning-before-tornado-struck/article2137119/ |location=Toronto |work=The Globe and Mail |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822171612/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/goderich-residents-had-12-minutes-warning-before-tornado-struck/article2137119/ |title=Goderich residents had 12 minutes warning before tornado struck |archive-date=August 22, 2011 }}</ref> The town did not have a tornado siren unlike some other Ontario cities.

News reports later indicated that one hundred houses, 25 buildings and thousands of 150-plus-year-old trees were seriously damaged or destroyed.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Joe |date=6 April 2012 |title=Goderich: The town Queen Elizabeth once described as the prettiest in Canada weathers on after devastating tornado |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/goderich-the-town-queen-elizabeth-once-described-as-the-prettiest-in-canada-weathers-on-after-devastating-tornado | work=National Post |location=Toronto |access-date=9 March 2017}}</ref>