{"id":265,"date":"2023-07-01T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weather.bluevistaventures.ca\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:41:27","slug":"tornado-6km-south-of-didsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/tornado-6km-south-of-didsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado 6km south of Didsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 1 often has a big storm and this year was not any different although this year was the worst.  I had some golf ball hail and a tornado that touched down 6km south of my location which left a few farmyards destroyed.<br>A few photos from what I saw from my place and then near the ground zero area.<br>Thankfully at this time no reported injuries!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2116-1024x580.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2116-1024x580.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tornado funnel seen from Didsbury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2117-1-1024x579.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2117-1-1024x579.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Golf ball size hail hitting the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2119-1024x850.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2119-1024x850.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Railway grain car in middle of field.  Brown path above was tornado path.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2120-1024x577.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2120-1024x577.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2115-764x1024.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2115-764x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2113-1024x790.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2113-1024x790.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Unlucky weather station, got hit with golf ball hail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2114-1024x783.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_2114-1024x783.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No other damage been found. Few years back hail broke the anemometer sensor on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1 often has a big storm and this year was not any different although this year was the worst. I had some golf ball hail and a tornado that touched down 6km south of my location which left a few farmyards destroyed.A few photos from what I saw from my place and then near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}