Yellow Warning - Severe Thunderstorm

At 8:17 p.m. EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing strong wind gusts, loonie to ping pong ball size hail and heavy rain.

Thunderstorm Location: 15 km (13 km) west of Barron River Provincial Park 15 km (13 km) west of Algonquin Provincial Park Mikisew Provincial Park

Motion: Moving quickly to the east at 70 km/h

Hazards: Wind: damaging (90 - 110 km/h) Hail: loonie to ping pong ball size (2.5 to 4.5 cm) Rain: heavy (15 - 50 mm)

Locations in the Path: Petawawa Sundridge Pembroke Beachburg Cobden Killaloe Eganville Barry's Bay Renfrew Arnprior

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Local utility outages are likely. Large hail may cause significant damage and injury.

Severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes. Severe thunderstorm warnings are issued when imminent or occurring thunderstorms are expected to produce damaging hail, wind or rain.