Trees and power lines down following afternoon storm

Trees and power lines are down in a number of neighbourhoods in and around Toronto after some severe weather earlier today.
Much of southern Ontario was under either thunderstorm of tornado warnings as unstable weather moved into the region late Wednesday afternoon.
Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area were told to brace for severe thunderstorms during the evening rush hour.A hard, but short-lived downpour of rain in the city brought down trees and power lines in some areas.
There are currently small pockets of power outages across the city, Toronto Hydro’s Florence Gabriel told shortly after 8 p.m.
Crews are currently working to restore the outages on a case-by-case basis, he said.
No major injuries have been reported.
North of the city, Environment Canada initially warned that areas including Newmarket, Georgina, and northern York and Durham regions could see tornadoes.
The tornado warnings were quickly ended at around 6 p.m.
Crews are currently trying to determine if a tornado touched down in Keswick, north of Newmarket, Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson told .
There are currently no reports of damage from the area.
Earlier Wednesday Environment Canada had warned that a broken line of thunderstorms extending from Lake Simcoe to northern Wellington County moving east-southeastward could bring “large hail and damaging winds.”
“In and around the Toronto area we are seeing a weather system with strong winds, maybe dime to nickel-sized hail, heavy rain,” Dave Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada said.
“As the cold front comes through it is going to give an extra little oomph to the weather and we could possibly see some very dangerous weather occurring here today.”
The threat of severe weather also prompted the Durham District School Board to issue a shelter-in-place directive before noon.
Toronto and Region Conservation was also warning residents to be careful around low-lying areas due to a risk of flooding.
“Environment Canada has stated that the current weather system may result in severe thunderstorms with approximately 20-30 millimetres of intense rainfall occurring across parts of the Greater Toronto Area,” the advisory said.
“Flooding in low-lying areas is possible and the forecasted rainfall will cause higher than normal flows and water levels in Greater Toronto Area creeks and rivers, resulting in unsafe conditions.”