HAMILTON - Power went out tonight for 50,000 customers in pockets of the city after a flash of lightning.
The outage affected residents in Dundas, the Westdale neighbourhood near McMaster University, and the central Mountain.
Horizon Utilities control room staff said the lightning struck some Hydro One wires at 8:20 p.m., although it was not known where exactly.
The outage lasted for 15 minutes before hydro was up and running again for all customers.
Environment Canada released a severe thunderstorm warning for Hamilton at 9:15 p.m. and called it off an hour later.
With the initial warning, Environment Canada said a line of thunderstorms would move across the area from north to south and was alerting the public that thunderstorms could develop with large hail and high winds.
Hamilton police had no major accidents or unusual results from the short-lived power outage that also affected traffic lights.