Parts of southwestern Ontario are bracing for some intense weather on Friday night.
Environment Canada has put out a yellow severe thunderstorm watch for Chatham-Kent, southern Wellington County, Sarnia-Lambton, and Windsor-Essex.
The weather agency is monitoring a line of thunderstorms making its way across Michigan.
At 6:15 p. m., the yellow watch was escalated to a yellow severe thunderstorm warning for Windsor-Essex. Soon after, it was upgraded to an orange warning, which expired at 8 p. m.
Chatham-Kent was added to the orange warning around 6:45 p. m. About 40 minutes later, Environment Canada issued a tornado warning for Chatham-Kent as conditions were ripe for producing a tornado.
A yellow severe thunderstorm warning followed for Sarnia-Lambton shortly after 7:30 p. m.
This system could bring heavy rainfall, wind gusts reaching up to 120 kilometres per hour, and hail the size of ping-pong balls.
“Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms capable of producing damaging hail, wind or rain,” read the notice from Environment Canada.
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