{"id":812866,"date":"2026-07-19T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:12:13","slug":"strong-storm-system-spawns-tornado-in-alberta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812866\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong storm system spawns tornado in Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong storm system swept through south-central Alberta, with at least one tornado confirmed to have touched down.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Tornadoes Project says one twister touched down in Rocky Mountain House, between Calgary and\u00a0Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>The group, a collaboration between Western University and ImpactWX, \u00a0\u00a0says there are reports of some damage, but nothing has been verified.<\/p>\n<p>They say a team will be sent into the field on Sunday to gather more information.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta had been peppered with severe thunderstorm warnings on Saturday, well into the evening hours.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says the risk of thunderstorms returns later Sunday afternoon, but no alerts or warnings have been issued yet.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary 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=calgary.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\/07\/1784110070_915_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 strong storm system swept through south-central Alberta, with at least one tornado confirmed to have touched down.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-812866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812866","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=812866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812866\/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=812866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}