A funnel cloud skirted around the fairgrounds at the Ponoka Stampede in central Alberta and may have touched down in a Ponoka neighbourhood Thursday afternoon. Environment Canada issued a tornado warning for Ponoka, Ponoka County, and Maskwacis at 5:18 p.m. MT, but downgraded the threat after 6 p.m. MT. Environment Canada will base its confirmation of tornado on images from storm chasers and may send out a storm-damage survey team. They began to get Twitter and email reports of possible funnel clouds just before 5 p.m., he said. Once they saw the storm on Doppler radar, they issued the tornado warning.

Source: CBC News July 01, 2016 00:20 UTC