On a summer evening a huge, cone-shaped tornado formed over the prairie south of Virden, Manitoba, and stayed on the ground for about 10 km. It wrecked a farm, tossed grain silos and snapped power poles, with winds near 260 km/h.
▶ Open on the mapStorm chasers filmed the tornado from very close and their videos became famous worldwide; later studies suggested the winds may have been even stronger than first thought.
Two young people died when the tornado picked up their car — a car is never a safe place in a tornado.