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Aug 20, 2014

, Last Updated: 11:52 PM ET

STRATFORD, Ont. -- A weather expert is reporting that a tornado may have been spotted just west of Stratford early Wednesday evening.

Mark Robinson, who hosts the StormHunters show on the Weather Network, was following the storm Wednesday evening, tweeting updates and images while he traced its path from near Atwood, Ont., to the St. Marys area.

At one point Robinson tweeted: "Consolidating tornado/land spout near Stratford. Did some light tree damage up the road."

A fellow storm aficionado suggested the storm looked like "a wall cloud with non-violent ground circulation," which would rate the tornado as a zero on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds of 104 to 137 kilometres per hour.