WEATHER ALERT
ENVIRONMENT CANADA
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Severe thunderstorm warning continued for:
Orillia - Lagoon City - Washago, Ont. (044120)
Barrie - Collingwood - Hillsdale, Ont. (044130)
Innisfil - New Tecumseth - Angus, Ont. (046510)
Current details:
At 7:53 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a cluster of severe thunderstorms capable of producing strong wind gusts, up to nickel size hail and heavy rain.
This cluster of severe thunderstorms is located from Strongville to Kilgorie, moving east at 60 km/h.
Hazard: 90 km/h wind gusts and quarter size hail.
Locations impacted include:
Barrie, Angus, South Barrie, Borden, Utopia, Essa, Egbert, Midhurst, Thornton, Little Lake, Stroud and Kempenfelt Bay.
Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. Large hail can damage property and cause injury. Strong wind gusts can toss loose objects, damage weak buildings, break branches off trees and overturn large vehicles.
Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year. Remember, when thunder roars, go indoors!
Emergency Management Ontario recommends that you take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.
Severe thunderstorm warnings are issued when imminent or occurring thunderstorms are likely to produce or are producing one or more of the following: large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.
To report severe weather in Ontario, send an email to [email protected] or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
For more information: https://www.ontario.ca/page/be-prepared-emergency.
More details on the alert are available here.
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