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Thunder Bay
A thunderstorm ripped done Thunder Bay, Ont., Tuesday evening, leaving downed trees, powerfulness lines and harm to country properties successful its wake.
Area upwind stations recorded lone 5 to 10 mm of rain, but it was mixed with 90 kilometre per hr winds
CBC News
· Posted: Jul 02, 2025 9:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
A thunderstorm ripped done Thunder Bay, Ont., Tuesday evening, leaving downed trees, powerfulness lines and harm to country properties successful its wake.
The fast-moving tempest touched down successful the metropolis astir 5:00 p.m. connected Canada Day, according to Environment Canada.
Area upwind stations recorded lone 5 to 10 millimetres of rain, but it was mixed with 90 kilometre per hr upwind gusts.
"Those [wind gusts] are beardown capable to bash immoderate damage. So we've seen immoderate pictures of down, down trees, down powerfulness lines, shingles disconnected roofs and things similar this. So yes, that's decidedly beardown capable to bash immoderate spot damage," said David Rodgers, a terrible upwind meteorologist with Environment Canada.
Rodgers said the tempest passed done the full city, but the southbound broadside of Thunder Bay was deed hardest, particularly successful the Westfort area.
In a station connected societal media Tuesday night, Synergy North said crews had been dispatched to the Westfort country to a powerfulness outage. The inferior company's outage representation shows powerfulness has been restored successful the area.
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