{"id":842936,"date":"2026-08-02T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842936\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:57:09","slug":"tornado-warning-issued-for-greater-golden-horseshoe-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842936\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado warning issued for Greater Golden Horseshoe area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canada has lifted a red tornado warning that was issued Sunday for areas in the Greater Golden Horseshoe region.<\/p>\n<p>The national weather agency said its meteorologists were tracking a severe thunderstorm that could have produced a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDamaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible,\u201d the warning read.<\/p>\n<p>The affected areas included St. Catharines, Grimsby, Welland and Niagara Region.<\/p>\n<p>The area remains under a separate yellow rainfall warning with up to 50 mm expected on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple thunderstorms will pass through the area before drying up for the Civic holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto 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=toronto.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\/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":"Environment Canada has lifted a red tornado warning that was issued Sunday for areas in the Greater Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-842936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842936","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=842936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}