{"id":812778,"date":"2026-07-19T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:10:11","slug":"strong-storm-system-spawns-tornado-in-alberta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812778\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong storm system spawns tornado in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tornado that touched down in a central Alberta county Saturday downed trees, damaged homes and did not leave anyone injured.<\/p>\n<p>Clearwater County says in a social media post that the twister caused significant damage in some areas at around 6:30 p.m., including in the Town of Rocky Mountain House.<\/p>\n<p>The county says it also blocked roads and crews are now cleaning up.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada has said that Alberta is seeing unusually wet and stormy summer weather, which has created conditions ripe for tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>About 25 tornadoes have been recorded across the province this year as of last week, which is about 10 more than Alberta and Saskatchewan usually see combined each year.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has said\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0was hammered by record-breaking rain in June and is on its way to doing it again this month.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tornado that touched down in a central Alberta county Saturday downed trees, damaged homes and did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-812778","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\/812778","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=812778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}