{"id":21316,"date":"2025-07-24T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21316\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:09:07","slug":"tornado-risk-alert-issued-for-portions-of-southern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21316\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado risk alert issued for portions of southern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of southern Ontario could get severe thunderstorms with a risk of a tornado on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/it-could-feel-like-44-c-as-heat-warning-starts-in-southern-ontario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">heat warning continues<\/a> in the Greater Toronto Area, stormy weather is also in the forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms are expected for southern, northeastern and portions of northwestern Ontario Thursday afternoon, Environment and Climate Change Canada said on X. <\/p>\n<p>Storms in the northeast and southern parts of the province could produce strong winds, hail and rain. <\/p>\n<p>There is a tornado risk for portions of northeastern and southern Ontario. The risk is in the cottage country area, including Muskoka, Almaguin Highlands and the Algonquin Park area.<\/p>\n<p>The storms could start around 5 p.m. and continue into the evening.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-745331\" class=\"wp-image-745331 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tornado-risk-ontario-muskoka.jpeg\" alt=\"tornado risk ontario muskoka\" width=\"1100\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-745331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Environment Canada map shows where storms are possible in Ontario on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Lead photo: Branden Stephenson<\/p>\n<p>Last 30 Days: 95,899 Votes<\/p>\n<p>All Time: 753,541 Votes<\/p>\n<p>    226 VOTES<br \/>\n    Have you ever played pickleball?    <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 SHOPPING SPREE!<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to\u00a0INsauga \u2013\u00a0Ontario Headline News\u2019 daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 gift card to Toronto Eaton Centre OR Sherway Gardens. Get news delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parts of southern Ontario could get severe thunderstorms with a risk of a tornado on Thursday. While the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-21316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}