{"id":784874,"date":"2026-07-06T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784874\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:34:08","slug":"update-potentially-life-threatening-severe-tornado-warning-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784874\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: \u2018Potentially life-threatening\u2019: Severe tornado warning issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canada has a red-coded tornado warning, its most severe alert, for several areas near the Manitoba boundary, including Kenora.<\/p>\n<p>KENORA \u2014 Severe weather in the western part of the region now includes a tornado warning.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada issued the red-coded (most severe) warning at 1:37 p.m. CT Monday, saying the severe weather &#8220;is possibly producing a tornado.&#8221; The warning includes the city of Kenora and followed the area previously being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwonewswatch.com\/local-news\/tornado-watch-issued-over-western-areas-12513406?utm_source=tbnewswatch.com&amp;utm_campaign=tbnewswatch.com%3A%20outbound&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">under a tornado watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The storm is moving eastward at 75 km\/h, the alert said.\u00a0Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible.<\/p>\n<p>Locations said to be in the storm path included:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSherwood Lake&#13;<br \/>\n\tLaclu&#13;<br \/>\n\tKeewatin&#13;<br \/>\n\tKenora&#13;<br \/>\n\tRedditt&#13;<br \/>\n\tLajeunesse Bridge&#13;<br \/>\n\tLongbow Lake&#13;<\/p>\n<p>At around 3:20 p.m. CT, the weather office updated the list of affected areas:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tRushing River Provincial Park&#13;<br \/>\n\tEagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park&#13;<br \/>\n\tWinnange Lake Provincial Park&#13;<br \/>\n\tTeggau Lake&#13;<br \/>\n\tBlue Lake Provincial Park&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation,\u201d the alert said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake cover immediately in a basement, interior room or a sturdy shelter when threatening weather approaches,\u201d officials continued. \u201cIf no shelter is available, lie in a low spot and protect your head from flying debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are out on the water when threatening weather approaches, return to shore and seek shelter, if possible. Otherwise, move away from the path of the tornado to escape. Wear your life jacket, lie face down and protect your head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Areas to the south of the warning, including Fort Frances, Emo, Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, Morson and others, remained under the orange-coded tornado watch Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: This story was updated at 3:40 p.m. CT to include new locations Environment Canada was tracking the storm through\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Canada has a red-coded tornado warning, its most severe alert, for several areas near the Manitoba boundary,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-784874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784874","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=784874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}