This Day In History: A major tornado hits Edmonton on this day in 1987. I remember this as I had just left Edmonton the day before. The event came to be called Black Friday.
The Edmonton tornado of 1987, was a powerful and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern parts of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and parts of neighboring Strathcona County on the afternoon of Friday, July 31, 1987. It was one of seven other tornadoes in central Alberta the same day.
The tornado peaked at F4 on the Fujita scale and remained on the ground for an hour, cutting a swath of destruction 30.8 km (19.1 mi) in length and up to 1.3 km (0.81 mi) wide in some places. It killed 27 people, and injured more than 300, destroyed more than 300 homes, and caused more than C$332.27 million (equivalent to $665 million in 2020) in property damage at four major disaster sites. The loss of life, injuries and destruction of property made it the worst natural disaster in Alberta's recent history and one of the worst in Canada's history.
The first "recorded" tornado in Alberta was in Vermillion in 1907. The first recorded Canadian tornado was in the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario in 1792.
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