MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY – Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a thunderstorm watch Friday afternoon for Mountain View County and nearby urban centres.
“Conditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, damaging hail and heavy rain,” the federal agency’s 3:26 p.m. weather alert for the county said. “Thunderstorms developing over the foothills in southern Alberta will move generally eastward this afternoon and evening.”
The warning includes Mountain View County near Sundre, Cremona, Water Valley, Carstairs, Didsbury and Olds.
Watches are issued when conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms with one or more of the following conditions:
• wind gusts of 90 kilometres an hour or greater, which could cause structural wind damage;
• hail of 2.5 centimetres or larger in diameter; or
• heavy rainfall.
A watch has been in place for much of southern Alberta all day while some areas like Foothills County were ungraded to a severe thunderstorm warning late in the day Friday.
