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Eleven of the tornadoes were given an F1 rating, and the last four were rated as F0. The lone fatality happened in Durham, Ontario, where an 11-year-old boy was killed by flying debris. At one point, over 10 million people in Southern Ontario were placed under tornado watches and/or warnings. It is also the largest tornado event in Canadian ...
Alert Ready has faced criticism, particularly due to wireless alerts being handled under a blanket category with no opt-outs (as opposed to the severity-based system used by the U.S. WEA system), and criticism over AMBER Alerts (particularly in Ontario) being issued province-wide rather than geographically targeted to relevant regions.
Special Weather Statements are free form statements that are typically used to describe weather hazards that cannot be described by another watch, warning, or advisory; is not hazardous enough to warrant issuing a watch or warning; or to warn the public of a potentially hazardous weather event in the long term forecast.
Tornadoes in Canada are enough of a threat for a public warning system to be in place, overseen by the national weather agency, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). With connections between Environment Canada and the Government of Canada, AlertReady is used for the public alerting method for various public hazards.
Get the Ontario, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
See Severe weather terminology (United States) and/or Severe weather terminology (Canada) for comprehensive articles concerning specific nations' warnings, watches, advisories and related terms. Pages in category "Weather warnings and advisories"
The National Public Warning System, also known as the Primary Entry Point (PEP) stations, is a network of 77 radio stations that are, in coordination with FEMA, used to originate emergency alert and warning information to the public before, during, and after incidents and disasters.
An extreme cold warning is a weather warning issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and by the United States' National Weather Service (NWS) to inform the public about active or imminent severe cold temperatures in their local region. As of April 8, 2014, ECCC replaced the "wind chill warning" with an "extreme cold warning."