{"id":111081,"date":"2026-07-01T01:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/111081\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:01:48","slug":"ottawa-gatineau-under-thunderstorm-watch-cleanup-efforts-begin-in-kingston-after-tornado-warning-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/111081\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa-Gatineau under thunderstorm watch, cleanup efforts begin in Kingston after tornado warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch <\/a>for the Ottawa-Gatineau\u00a0area.<\/p>\n

The weather agency said Tuesday morning that conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain.<\/p>\n

The storm could start this morning into this afternoon and possibly early this evening, the agency said.<\/p>\n

The area could see wind gusts up to 110 km\/h, golf ball-sized hail and 50 millimetres or more of rain, according to the watch.<\/p>\n

The watch covers a large swath of eastern Ontario. Another yellow thunderstorm watch is in effect for parts of western Quebec.<\/p>\n

The watch is yellow, the lowest level on Environment Canada’s three-level scale.<\/p>\n

Local utility outages are also possible, the agency warned.<\/p>\n

Fallen trees, flooding reported in Kingston area<\/p>\n

Significant thunderstorms and tornado warnings tore through Kingston, Ont., and its surrounding communities early Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

There was reported flooding at the Gardiners Road underpass, near the intersection of Development Drive in Kingston, according to a statement from the city.<\/p>\n

The City of Kingston says transit operations were briefly suspended during the storm, with additional flooding and toppled trees concentrated to the north and east ends of the city.<\/p>\n

Environment Canada said its meteorologists were tracking a severe thunderstorm with the potential of producing a tornado in the area.<\/p>\n

The weather agency issued a red tornado warning for Kingston and the surrounding area at 12:46 p.m. ET on Tuesday. It rescinded that warning just before 1:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

In South Frontenac, there was an uptick in emergency calls as uprooted trees crashed onto roadways.<\/p>\n

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A fallen tree shuts down access to Peters road in South Frontenac, Ont., on Monday afternoon. (Submitted by Natasha Snyder)<\/p>\n

South Frontenac Fire Chief Del Blakney recalls the sky turning black just before the storm rolled in.<\/p>\n

“It seemed like it was nighttime,” said Blakney, South Frontenac’s emergency services director. “I went to the window to look and all I saw were the trees swirling in the wind and rain.”<\/p>\n

Red is the highest level on Environment Canada’s three-colour scale, indicating life-threatening weather that could cause extreme disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Ottawa-Gatineau\u00a0area. The weather agency said Tuesday morning that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38758,1113,9611,38756,61,30437,38755,38757,32244,22025],"class_list":["post-111081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-city-of-kingston","tag-environment-canada","tag-kingston","tag-kingston-area","tag-ottawa","tag-severe-thunderstorm-watch","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-south-frontenac","tag-tornado-warnings","tag-weather-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}