Severe thunderstorm warnings, watches end for the northeast
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Environment Canada lifted all severe thunderstorm warnings and watches across the northeast as of early Saturday morning.
Environment Canada lifted all severe thunderstorm warnings and watches across the northeast as of early Saturday morning.
After an exciting end to June in northeastern Ontario, especially for the Powassan and North Bay areas — a tornado warning was declared about 6 p.m. ending shortly after 8 p.m. for that area. With most of the north under warnings or watches well into Canada Day morning as a severe thunderstorm moved its way through the region.
CTV News received several photos from viewers in the area of the storm.
We reached out to the mayor of Powassan and their fire chief, they said nothing has been confirmed yet in terms of whether a twister did touch down.
But — those in the area told us "it was intense."
“We actually went out to the woodshed because we had a great vantage point from there. Thunder and great lightning and the big boom of thunder and the funnel cloud," said Stephan and Angelina Daviau, who recorded video of the funnel cloud in the area.
"We had really good support from our neighbours as well, they were making sure everyone was safe."
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