Environment Canada Alerts – UPDATE
All alerts in the region have ended including, as of 11:10 EDT Monday 27 August 2018, the watches (previously published) listed below.
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Watches
8:34 AM EDT Monday 27 August 2018
Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for:
- Marathon – Schreiber
- Geraldton – Longlac – Caramat
- Nakina – Aroland – Pagwa
Risk of severe thunderstorms this morning.
An area of thunderstorms continues to track east this morning.
Some of these thunderstorms could contain locally damaging winds, hail and torrential downpours.
Environment Canada will monitor this situation closely.
Strong wind gusts can toss loose objects, damage weak buildings, break branches off trees and overturn large vehicles. Remember, severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes. Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year. Remember, when thunder roars, go indoors!
Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when atmospheric conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms that could produce one or more of the following: large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall.
The Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management recommends that you take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
For more information:
http://www.emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/beprepared/beprepared.html.
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