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By Eli J. Ridder

Medicine Hat severe thunderstorm watch lifted, systems bypass city

Aug 23, 2024 | 11:25 PM

Medicine Hat was spared a severe thunderstorm warning on Friday after storm systems moved up from the United States, causing rolling weather alerts across southern Alberta.

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued by Environment Canada for much of southern Alberta — including Medicine Hat, Redcliff and Cypress County — on Friday afternoon.

It was lifted shortly before 11:30 p.m.

Conditions were favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing damaging wind gusts and large hail, the federal weather agency said in an alert.

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Many areas north and east of Medicine Hat — including Bowmanton, Irvine, Walsh and others — were given thunderstorm warnings.

Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when atmospheric conditions are favourable for the development of thunderstorms that could produce large hail, damaging winds, torrential rainfall or a combination of all or some of those elements.