I gotta note that a tornado warning was issued for the city of Toronto by Environment Canada on June 17, 2017. That's the first one I've been able to google up ... if I were gonna bet, I'd bet there have been more (they're not all that easy to google, because EC doesn't archive them, at least not publicly, AFAIK), though I have absolutely no idea how many more. Criteria for warnings, and interpretation of the criteria, evolve over time--EC has gotten shit in the past for not warning, or not warning enough in advance, about tornadoes. Their position on warnings has generally been that they don't want to over-warn because people will learn to ignore warnings. I suspect that social-media-world has--maybe misleadingly, it's hard to tell--given a lot of people the impression that people's capacity for alarm is greater than previously believed.
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Date: 2020-07-20 03:05 am (UTC)