Environment Canada is warning of the potential for heavy rain, lightning, isolated hail and funnel clouds are also possible.
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO - Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for most of Southwestern Ontario, including Oxford County.
Conditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail and torrential rain. It is possible to have rainfall amounts between 50-75 mm in some regions. Other potential hazards include the possibility of isolated hail, wind gusts of up to 90 km/h and isolated funnel clouds are possible.
The thunderstorm is expected to land later this afternoon and through to the early evening.
The type of funnel clouds possible are generated by weak rotation under rapidly growing clouds or weak thunderstorms. This weak rotation is normally not a danger near the ground. However, there is a chance that this rotation could intensify and become a weak landspout tornado.
Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. Lightning kills and injures Canadians every year. Remember, when thunder roars, go indoors!

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