VIDEO: This is What the Incredible Tornado In Three Hills, Alberta Canada Looks Like

Tornados are a really interesting phenomenon that everyone is mesmerized by. While we all know that they can be deadly and that they will destroy everything in their path, this still doesn’t stop us from staring at them in wonder.

We’ve seen them in movies and cartoons and animations, they have played important roles and have fascinated us on screen as they do in real life.

There are people that actually dedicate their lives to studying them and still after all this time we still don’t know everything there is to know about them.

We’d love to see them up close, but without them harming us or anyone else and without destroying anything.

According to kelownanow.com, a large and well-formed tornado touched down in central Alberta on Friday afternoon.

The tornado was sighted near Three Hills and a tornado warning was issued for around half an hour.

According to Environment Canada, the tornado was classified as an EF0, the weakest rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale which categorizes tornadoes based primarily on the damage they do.

An EF0 tornado has maximum winds of about 137 km/h.

Environment Canada estimates the wind speed of this particular tornado as between 90 and 130 km/h.

Currently. no injuries have been reported as a result of the tornado, which was part of a series of storms that prompted severe thunderstorm warnings through much of the province.

The tornado was captured by a number of videos and pictures uploaded to social media.

According to cnews.canoe.com, residents of a central Alberta town got a front-row seat to a spectacular spring tornado Friday afternoon.

The twister touched down a little after 5 p.m. in a field a few kilometres northeast of the town of Three Hills, kicking up a large amount of dirt and dust as it bore its way east.

Incredible time-lapse footage of the twister was uploaded to YouTube by user Vance Neudorf.

Resident Dodi Brauen was watching the storm clouds from her front porch when the tornado started to take shape.

“It started to rain, a little bit, and then I said ‘oh, that looks like a funnel cloud.'” she said.

“It looked like it was drawing the dust up.”

Watching from her home on the east outskirts of town, she said the tornado seemed to bypass her house before continuing on east.

Severe weather watches were issued by Environment Canada.

Witnesses said the tornado was on the ground for about ten minutes.

While intense weather isn’t unheard of in the area, photographer and storm enthusiast Jason Ewert told Postmedia it was the first time he’d seen a tornado so close to town.

“I have on occasion taking photos of this kind of weather, but I’ve been here since 1992 and I’ve never, in town, been able to see a funnel cloud like that,” he said.

Early reports suggest no injuries or damage from the tornado, which grew from a long line of afternoon storms that swept across the centre of the province.