{"id":29719,"date":"2024-06-15T01:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/?p=29719"},"modified":"2024-06-15T01:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T01:02:59","slug":"fort-saskatchewan-tornado-warning-lifts-as-storm-moves-away-from-region-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/fort-saskatchewan-tornado-warning-lifts-as-storm-moves-away-from-region-edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Saskatchewan tornado warning lifts as storm moves away from region &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Descrease article font size<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Increase article font size<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An Alberta Emergency Alert issued late Friday afternoon about a possible tornado in Fort Saskatchewan and northern Strathcona Country has been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists from Environment and Climate Change Canada first issued the tornado warning at 4:52 p.m. MDT as a severe thunderstorm tracked through the area.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tThe latest health and medical news<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t emailed to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The warning was in effect for Fort Saskatchewan and northern Strathcona County.<\/p>\n<p>When the alert was issued, the thunderstorm was 10 kilometres east of Fort Saskatchewan, moving east at 15 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The weather agency said damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall were possible. It was described as a \u201cdangerous and potentially life-threatening\u201d situation.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada has also issued a severe thunderstorm watch for much of north-central Alberta, including Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters said conditions are favourable for severe thunderstorms to develop Friday afternoon and into the evening that could produce strong wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10568295\/tornado-warning-fort-saskatchewan\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Originally Appeared Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Alberta Emergency Alert issued late Friday afternoon about a possible tornado in Fort Saskatchewan and northern Strathcona Country has been lifted&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5015],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29720,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29719\/revisions\/29720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}