3 tornadoes recorded in Quebec amid evening thunderstorms

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) firstconfirmed a tornado touched down in Brossard on Montreal's South Shore Wednesday night, overturning an 18-wheeler truck, uprooting several trees and causing damage to infrastructure.

The twister formed around 8:12 p.m.,the federal agency wrote in a statement Thursday morning.

Then, Thursday afternoon, ECCC posted on X that it had provisionally concluded two other twisters had occurred in the province Wednesday.

One of the two took place in Saint-Hippolyte north of Montreal at around 4 p.m. It also uprooted several trees and caused damage to infrastructure.

The other occurred soon after in the early evening, ECCC said, though did not provide a specific time, in Cap-Sant, a town in Quebec's North Shore region on the St. Lawrence River.

The tornado in Brossardhit nearMatte Boulevard, saidLongueuil police spokesperson Mlanie Mercille, who added the driver of the semi-trailersuffered minor injuries.

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The damage caused by Monday's tornado in Trs-Saint-Rdempteur, Que., and the surrounding area was enough to dispatch a specialized team from the Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University.

Researchers with Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) are expected in Brossard Thursday toinspect the damage.

ECCC says an investigation intotornado-like activityWednesday in the Laurentians, Boucherville and on a farm in Portneuf near Quebec City will also take place.

Meteorologist Katarina Radovanovicsaid there are several factors to consider when evaluating a tornado, saying it is identified by either the type of damage it does or the intensity of the winds.

"So we're going to look at the damages of the structures or what was broken," she said.

Heavy rain swept acrosssouthern Quebec Wednesday evening, particularly in Montreal, the Laurentians,Lanaudire and theMontrgie.