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Environment Canada confirmed that a tornado – the first for Alberta this year – touched down Wednesday afternoon near the intersection of Highway 1 and Stoney Trail, east of Calgary.

Meteorologist Kirk Torneby said the tornado touched down around 3:50 p.m. but did not cause any damage and it was difficult to determine the length and width of its track.

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“This was driven by daytime heating, winds converging at the surface and causing a rotation, sucked up by the updraft of, in this case, rain moving through,” Torneby said, adding winds reached as high as 105 to 137 km/h.

“It was basically developing from the ground up to the cloud.”

On the 1 to 5 Fujita scale used to rate the intensity of tornadoes, this one was rated a zero since it had no impact, the agency said. Most tornadoes reported in Alberta fall between 0 and 2 on the Fujita scale, Torneby added.

Still, it was a sight to see and one caught on camera by Sherwin Moseley and posted on YouTube by his wife, Shawnah.