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A tornado alert was sent to phones successful the Prince George, B.C., country connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic forecasters warned of terrible thunderstorms successful the area, but was lifted soon after.
Severe thunderstorm informing issued soon after
Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News
· Posted: Jul 02, 2025 12:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago
A tornado alert was sent to phones successful the Prince George, B.C., country connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic forecasters warned of terrible thunderstorms successful the area, but was lifted soon after.
The alert was issued astatine 8:18 p.m. PT successful the north-central B.C. city, which is located astir 515 kilometres northeast of Vancouver and whose municipality country has a colonisation of conscionable nether 90,000 arsenic of the 2021 census.
It told residents to instrumentality contiguous screen successful a basement oregon interior room, and structure from flying debris if outside.
While a tornado informing was lifted by Environment Canada soon aft the alert was issued to phones successful the area, a terrible thunderstorm informing was successful effect as of 8:30 p.m. PT.
Environment Canada says a enactment of terrible thunderstorms conscionable eastbound of Prince George was moving northeast astatine 50 km/h, and it urged residents to instrumentality contiguous screen if a thunderstorm approaches.
"Severe thunderstorm warnings are issued erstwhile imminent oregon occurring thunderstorms are expected to nutrient damaging hail, upwind oregon rain," according to Environment Canada.
A terrible thunderstorm ticker is besides successful spot for a ample swath of the cardinal B.C. Interior astir Prince George, including Quesnel, with the ticker extending past the Alberta border.
WATCH | B.C.'s archetypal tornado of the twelvemonth adjacent Vanderhoof successful May: Rare tornado recorded successful B.C.'s Interior
Earlier this year, B.C.'s archetypal tornado of the twelvemonth was recorded conscionable westbound of Prince George adjacent Vanderhoof.
A study from Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project said a landspout-type tornado occurred connected the day of May 21, and it resulted successful nary damage.
No contiguous reports of a tornado adjacent Prince George was posted connected the Northern Tornadoes Project tracker connected Tuesday night.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Akshay Kulkarni is an award-winning writer who has worked astatine CBC British Columbia since 2021. Based successful Vancouver, helium is astir funny successful data-driven stories. You tin email him astatine [email protected].
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