{"id":811737,"date":"2026-07-19T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811737\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:42:11","slug":"red-tornado-warning-lifted-for-central-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811737\/","title":{"rendered":"Red tornado warning lifted for central Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environment Canada has lifted a red tornado warning that, at one point, affected three counties in central Alberta.<\/p>\n

The weather agency initially issued the warning for Clearwater County late Saturday afternoon, as meteorologists tracked a “dangerous thunderstorm” that they worried could produce a tornado \u2014 and had a few communities in its path, including Rocky Mountain House, a town about 160 kilometres southwest of Edmonton.<\/p>\n

Around 7:15 p.m. MT, the warning was expanded to include parts of Lacombe and Ponoka counties, as the storm headed northeast toward the hamlet of Leedale.<\/p>\n

According to Alberta Emergency Alerts<\/a>, the hours-long warning ended around 8:15 p.m. Saturday, as tornadoes associated with the alert were no longer expected in the region.<\/p>\n

While tracking the storm, Environment Canada warned it could also bring damaging winds, large hail and intense rain.<\/p>\n

The weather agency advised people to take cover immediately in a basement, “interior room, or sturdy shelter.” If no such shelter was available, they directed the public to lie in a low spot and protect their heads from debris.<\/p>\n

The Northern Tornadoes Project, based out of Western University in London, Ont., confirmed that a tornado occurred around Rocky Mountain House, according to a Facebook post<\/a> late Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

It has received some damage reports and will send a team based in Olds, Alta., to the region Sunday to investigate further, the post said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Canada has lifted a red tornado warning that, at one point, affected three counties in central Alberta.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-811737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811737","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=811737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}