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UPDATE: Severe thunderstorm warning cancelled

Warning called off for Guelph area
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Update: Environment Canada has cancelled the warning.

WEATHER ALERT
ENVIRONMENT CANADA
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Severe thunderstorm warning continued for:

Mount Forest - Arthur - Northern Wellington County, Ont. (046410)

Guelph - Erin - Southern Wellington County, Ont. (046420)

Kitchener - Cambridge - Region of Waterloo, Ont. (046430)

Current details: 

At 4:47 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing very strong wind gusts, up to nickel-size hail and heavy rain.

This line of severe thunderstorms near the shores of Lake Huron is moving east at 80 km/h.

Locations impacted include:

Waterloo, Kitchener, Mount Forest, Listowel, New Hamburg, Elmira, Arthur and Fergus.

Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. Large hail can damage property and cause injury. Strong wind gusts can toss loose objects, damage weak buildings, break branches off trees and overturn large vehicles.

Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year. Remember, when thunder roars, go indoors.

The Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management recommends that you take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.

Severe thunderstorm warnings are issued when imminent or occurring thunderstorms are likely to produce or are producing one or more of the following: large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or tweet reports using #ONStorm.

For more information: http://www.emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/beprepared/beprepared.html.

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