WEATHER ALERT
ENVIRONMENT CANADA
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Severe thunderstorm warning continued for:
Kirkland Lake - Englehart, Ont. (049710)
Temiskaming Shores - Temagami, Ont. (049720)
Severe thunderstorm warning ended for:
Timmins - Cochrane - Iroquois Falls, Ont. (049520)
Current details:
At 7:35 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing strong wind gusts, up to nickel size hail and heavy rain.
This line of severe thunderstorms is located from 20 kilometres north of Larder River Waterway Provincial Park to Englehart to Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, moving east at 60 km/h.
Hazard: 90 km/h wind gusts, nickel size hail and heavy downpours.
Locations impacted include:
New Liskeard, Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Kap-Kig-Iwan Provincial Park, Englehart, W.J.B. Greenwood Provincial Park, Temiskaming Shores, Larder River Waterway Provincial Park, Makobe Lake, Willow Island Lake, Lady Evelyn Lake, Osseo, Mowat Landing, Portage Bay, Milberta, Button's Corners, Lorrain, Wendigo Lake, Cobalt, Hanbury and Larder Lake.
Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. Strong wind gusts can toss loose objects, damage weak buildings, break branches off trees and overturn large vehicles. Intense lightning is likely with any thunderstorm that develops.
Take cover immediately, if threatening weather approaches. 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, 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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