{"id":683181,"date":"2026-05-21T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:52:10","slug":"severe-ontario-storms-linked-to-fatality-and-confirmed-tornado-near-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683181\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Ontario storms linked to fatality and confirmed tornado near London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on May. 20, 2026, 9:19 PM<\/p>\n<p>Severe thunderstorms ripped through parts of Ontario, causing damage, weather warnings and at least one confirmed fatality<\/p>\n<p>One person has died following severe thunderstorms that swept parts of Ontario over May 18 and 19, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/warnings\/weathersummaries_e.html#ON\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Environment and Climate Change Canada<\/a>\u2019s weather summary.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agency stated that the system brought hot weather followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/forecasts\/photos-powerful-tornado-warned-thunderstorms-charge-through-ontario\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">damaging thunderstorms<\/a>, resulting in power outages, downed trees\u00a0and localized injuries in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the summary, the fatality occurred near Huntsville during severe thunderstorm activity on May 18\u00a0and affected communities, experienced significant tree damage and downed power lines.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK OUT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/seasonal\/why-we-love-the-smell-of-rain\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why we love the smell of rain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tornado confirmed near London<\/p>\n<p>A tornado was also confirmed southeast of London, Ont., around 6 p.m. on May 19, according to Environment Canada&#8217;s summary.<\/p>\n<p>Storms swept across central, eastern\u00a0and southwestern Ontario, with reports of a semi-truck being blown over and widespread tree damage in London.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Tornadoes Project is looking into possible tornadoes in other parts of the province, including Mattawa and Huntsville.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with The Weather Network for the latest across Ontario<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on May. 20, 2026, 9:19 PM Severe thunderstorms ripped through parts of Ontario, causing damage, weather warnings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,905,11696,20792,18234,41,39,42,40,19512,3623],"class_list":["post-683181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-ontario","tag-rain","tag-southern-ontario","tag-thunderstorm","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tornado","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683181","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=683181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}