NEWS RELEASE
ENVIRONMENT CANADA
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Issued at 2024-05-23 9:52 p.m. by Environment Canada:
Severe thunderstorm warning replaces tornado warning for:
Newmarket - Georgina - Northern York Region
Innisfil - New Tecumseth - Angus, Ont
Current details:
At 9:51 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a cluster of severe thunderstorms capable of producing very strong wind gusts and up to toonie size hail.
This cluster of severe thunderstorms is located from 8 kilometres southeast of Angus to New Tecumseth to Tottenham, moving east at 40 km/h.
Hazard: Toonie size hail and 90 km/h wind gusts.
Locations impacted include:
Newmarket, New Tecumseth, Bradford, Beeton, Cookstown, Keswick, East Gwillimbury, Egbert, Thornton, Stroud, Deerhurst, Gilford, Cook's Bay, Belhaven, Maple Hill and Baldwin.
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!
Lightening created a dramatic sky above Newmarket May 22. Debora Kelly/NewmarketToday
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.
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