Environment Canada has confirmed that a tornado hit the town of Sheffield, Ont., Monday evening.

Thunderstorms moved through the Sheffield area between Hamilton and Cambridge around 10:30 p.m. ET.

"Environment Canada has investigated reports of damage in this area and concluded that the damage was indicative of a tornado, with a damage track of about 150 metres wide and 1.5 kilometres long," says a news release.

Damage from the tornado included:

A set of aluminum bleachers at a local ballpark blown a short distance through the air.

Siding and shingle damage to homes.

Downed trees and branches.

Significant damage to a camper trailer.

A steel storage container and some horse trailers being shifted a few metres.

According to CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland, the damage track from the incident appears to be relatively narrow. Peak wind speeds from the tornado were 150 km/h, Environment Canada says. No one was reported injured.

Investigators say the damage track from the tornado that touched down in Sheffield was 'very narrow.' (Kendra MacInnis Keels/Facebook)

Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson surveyed the damage Wednesday. He described the tornado's path as on the "lower end of the damage scale" and "very localized."

"There were houses just two to three houses down from the tornado's track that had no damage at all," Coulson said. Many animals were still spooked hours after the storm moved on, he said.

"But the overwhelming reaction I got from the people there was one of relief. The only things that were damaged were objects that could be replaced."

Though winds were strong enough to cause damage, the tornado wasn't reported until Tuesday afternoon, Environment Canada meteorologist Peter Kimbell told CBC News. "People look to Environment Canada to be the voice of authority on if there was a tornado or not," Kimbell said. "It took a spotter going out to check it out to confirm it."

That needs to happen in daylight hours, he said, so no one made it out to the community to check until Wednesday morning.

This is the 19th tornado confirmed in Ontario so far this year. The long-term average for Ontario is about 12 tornadoes a year, but that can be a misleading statistic, Kimbell said. That's because that average includes data from "many decades ago," he said, long before the technology boom that helped the broadcast of weather events from outlying areas.

"Everyone has a phone, camera and Twitter now," he said. "That means quite a bit more can be reported."