{"id":817711,"date":"2026-07-22T03:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817711\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:01:40","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-watch-ends-for-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817711\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm watch ends for Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm watch Toronto has lifted after Environment Canada warned of torrential downpours, strong wind gusts and hail on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Torrential downpours, 90-110 km\/h wind gusts and hail were possible, Environment Canada warned<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Jul 21, 2026 11:44 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A woman under a clear umbrella\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784689300_526_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Toronto Tuesday. It lifted just before 6 p.m. (David Donnelly\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm watch Toronto has ended after Environment Canada warned of torrential downpours, strong wind gusts and hail on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The national weather agency said the impact could be felt late Tuesday morning to early evening.<\/p>\n<p>Local rainfall amounts were forecast be over 50 millimeters. Wind gusts between 90-110 km\/h and &#8220;quarter to ping pong ball size hail&#8221; were also possible, the alert said. Southwestern Ontario faced the greatest likelihood for damaging winds.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada categorized the thunderstorm watch as a yellow alert on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/services\/environment\/weather\/severeweather\/weather-alerts\/colour-coded-alerts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">colour-coded alert system<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those types of alerts are the most common and warn of moderate, localized and short-term impacts .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto A severe thunderstorm watch Toronto has lifted after Environment Canada warned of torrential downpours, strong wind gusts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-817711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817711","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=817711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}