{"id":23972,"date":"2025-07-25T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23972\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:30:11","slug":"roofs-torn-off-possible-tornado-severe-thunderstorms-hit-quebec-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23972\/","title":{"rendered":"Roofs torn off, possible tornado: Severe thunderstorms hit Quebec hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on Jul. 25, 2025, 11:33 AM<\/p>\n

Severe thunderstorms struck Thursday evening, causing nearly 50,000 power outages and downed trees in the Upper Laurentians<\/p>\n

Heat and humidity<\/a> provided plenty of fuel for the thunderstorms that struck strongly late Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: Large hail and ‘serious winds’ batter parts of Ontario, Quebec<\/a><\/p>\n

At the height of the storm, nearly 50,000 power outages were reported, with more than half in the Outaouais region. In the Ferme-Neuve area, the roof of a garage was reportedly torn off.<\/p>\n

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\nPhoto courtesy: Melissa Pelletier<\/p>\n

In the Ferme-Neuve area, north of Mont-Laurier, a particularly powerful storm cell hit, destroying trees and producing large hailstones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While exact measurements are unavailable, this type of tree damage is typically caused by winds of at least 90 km\/h<\/a>. There are also reports of a possible tornado in Chute-Saint-Philippe.<\/p>\n

\"Stefan<\/p>\n

\nPhoto courtesy: Stefan B\u00e9dard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Jul. 25, 2025, 11:33 AM Severe thunderstorms struck Thursday evening, causing nearly 50,000 power outages and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,19513,906,66,18234,19512,3623],"class_list":["post-23972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-hail","tag-quebec","tag-science","tag-thunderstorm","tag-tornado","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23972","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=23972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}