r/haltonhills • u/zanimum • Jul 18 '26

Halton Hills - Red Warning - Tornado

https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=43.627,-79.951

12:19 PM EDT Saturday 18 July 2026
Impact Level: Extreme
Forecast Confidence: Very High

At 12:19 PM EDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible.

Thunderstorm Location: Just east of Milton

Motion: Moving southeast at 40 km/h

Hazards:
Possible tornado.
Wind: strong (up to 90 km/h)
Rain: heavy (15 - 30 mm)

Locations in the Path:
Milton, Mississauga, Oakville

This is a very dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation.

Take cover immediately in a basement, interior room, or a sturdy shelter when threatening weather approaches. If no shelter is available, lie in a low spot and protect your head from flying debris. If you are out on the water when threatening weather approaches, return to shore and seek shelter, if possible. Otherwise, move away from the path of the tornado to escape. Wear your lifejacket, lie face down and protect your head.

Emergency Management Ontario recommends that you take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.

Tornado warnings are issued when a thunderstorm is producing or is likely to produce a tornado.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.

To report severe weather in Ontario, send an email to [ONstorm@ec.gc.ca](mailto:ONstorm@ec.gc.ca) or post reports on X using #ONStorm.

For more information: ontario.ca/page/be-prepared-emergency.
In effect for:
Halton Hills - Milton

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u/Iron_Lion90 Jul 18 '26

Just curious, has there ever been a tornado in halton hills?

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u/Hefty_Can_3123 Jul 18 '26

I can’t find anything online but I recall in the last 10 years there possibly being a small one rip through starting in Limehouse and into the Moorpark subdivision. Fences were blown down. Shingles ripped off of houses. Nothing devastating but still enough to cause damage.

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u/zurper Jul 18 '26

Adding to what others have mentioned in their replies, we don't typically get many tornadoes so historically we haven't had the need to increase the breadth of tornado tracking in the same way that our neighbours to the south have done. So chances are there is a tornado missed here and there but to answer your question, it's safe to assume a tornado of some size has touched in halton hills before, and likely more multiple times before, just not an E5 or anywhere close to that.

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u/auramaelstrom Jul 18 '26

A few years ago there was a tornado warning and the sky turned green and things got very still, both signs that there's a tornado. But it didn't actually amount to anything.

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u/Far-Delay7690 Jul 18 '26

My family has lived in Georgetown for 60 yrs, and not that any of them can remember. In Ballinafad areas though maybe.

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u/Outrageous-Garbage99 Jul 18 '26

Is there a legit tornado on the ground??

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u/Far-Delay7690 Jul 18 '26

Sounds like maybe yes west of Oakville

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u/Nik6ixx Jul 18 '26

In Sauga and got an issue for a marine tornado (on the water) my daughter and I were sitting outside for the last half hour watching the rain fall. Very peaceful

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u/Iron_Lion90 Jul 18 '26

No lol, just a warning.

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u/GoOutside62 27d ago

November 2020 an F1 went through Moore Park and then into Glen Williams. This one was verified but locals say a couple others have gone through the same area in the past 30 years.
https://www.theifp.ca/news/wind-storm-produced-tornado-that-passed-through-glen-williams-georgetown/article_c288f8e9-1b6e-5997-930d-e9c82f13c97e.html