Yellow Watch - Severe Thunderstorm

Conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain.

Potential rainfall rates: locally 30 mm per hour in thunderstorms.

Potential wind gusts: near 90 km/h in thunderstorms.

Potential hail: 1 to 2 cm.

Time span: until later this evening.

Remarks: Thunderstorms, with potential to become severe, have developed ahead of and along a cold front. There still remains a slight risk of a tornado.

Be sure to watch for changing skies as storms can intensify quickly.

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Heavy rain can cause flash flooding and significant reductions to visibility.

Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms capable of producing damaging hail, wind or rain.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to NBstorm@ec.gc.ca or post reports on social media using #NBStorm.