July 7 2011 - Storm watch **hide yo wife, hide yo cars**

[88CRX]

FYI, bad storm rolling in I guess..... bad in Olds right now.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/ale...nings_citypage


Summary

Severe thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening. This is an alert to the potential development of severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements. If threatening weather approaches take immediate safety precautions.

Details

A warm, moist airmass is in place through Central Alberta with cooling coming in aloft from a developing weather system. Thunderstorms have started to trigger along the foothills and will track into Central Alberta this evening. Some of these thunderstorms are expected to become severe giving large hail, strong winds and heavy rain.

[lilmira]

Still clear here just south of downtown.

[88CRX]

Hitting Olds area right now I guess

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Nice up in the NW but ive been seeing nasty clouds today!

[CMW403]

Cars in the garage, heading out to Mara lake in my buddys truck! Hopefully we don't encounter anything on the way out there.

[Super_Geo]

It'll miss Calgary... looks like it's going NE from Olds.

[Maybelater]

My car is a P.O.S! Bring it on weather!!! We get these warning pretty often though, nothing happens, I've been wanting at least one huge storm this year.

[BlackArcher101]

Only a watch, not a warning. No need to panic.

[max_boost]

Tomco must be excited for the hail

[BlackArcher101]

However, if you are near Sundre-Olds... good god watch out. That storm is now tornado warned and the radar signature is giving it a good chance of producing one, if it hasn't already.

[kenny]

http://www.emergencyalert.alberta.ca/

Tornado touched down in Sundre, heading East

[Maybelater]

I got in my car when the alert came on the radio for the Tornado, all stations were getting the transmission but X92.9, strange.

[syritis]

Did anyone get confirmation of a tornado touching down on Sunday during that wind storm? I heard rumors but nothing factual. That was crazy.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally posted by syritis
Did anyone get confirmation of a tornado touching down on Sunday during that wind storm? I heard rumors but nothing factual. That was crazy.

All rumours based on the fact there was damage. It was just a very strong wind.

[Canadian Si]

Z99 posted this on their site ! Somebody had a couple pics !

Tornado

[revelations]

Thats tough call... is that a shelf cloud or a giant twister?

[BlackArcher101]

That's a wall cloud. The twister itself was small.

[revelations]

Wall cloud here... def CONDUCIVE to tornado activity.

[2Legit2Quit]

hail just outside of red deer messed my buddies cars up

[Squishy]

Noooo, I don't have a garage yet!!!

The winds are really strong here in the SE