News DetailTornado Watch issued in southern Manitoba!
Posted At: June 12, 2007 @ 6:14 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
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Killarney - Pilot Mound - Manitou5:54 PM CDT Tuesday 12 June 2007
Tornado watch for
Killarney - Pilot Mound - Manitou continued
Conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms with the potential to produce tornadoes.
These severe thunderstorms will also have the potential to produce very large hail..Flooding rain..Deadly lightning and powerful winds. Use this time to secure outdoor property and to ensure family members and co-workers are prepared to take action should the severe weather approach.
Environment Canada continues to monitor the situation closely for severe thunderstorm development and possible tornado warnings. Please continue to monitor your local media or weatheradio for further updates.
Should severe weather approach or if you feel threatened do not wait for warnings to take action..Take shelter immediately.
Should you spot a funnel cloud or tornado...And only if it is safe to do so...You can call 1-800-239-0484 to report your sighting. Please note this phone number is for reporting severe weather only.
At 5:45 PM CDT weather radar indicates a line of rapidly building thunderstorms from Killarney through Carberry and st laurent. Quarter sized hail has been reported just north of MacGregor. These thunderstorms are expected to track slowly to the northeast. As the storms track slowly heavy rainfall with amounts of 50 to 80 mm and can produce local flooding.
A hot and humid airmass has provided the necessary ingredients for development of severe thunderstorms late this afternoon and tonight over much of southern Manitoba. Some thunderstorms have developed along the trans-Canada highway between Brandon and Portage la Prairie. Some of these storms have the potential to produce tornadoes. Thunderstorms will move east of the Red River late this evening.
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Yup. This watch also includes plenty of other areas including:
-Portage la Prairie - Headingley - Brunkild - Carman
-Killarney - Pilot Mound - Manitou
-Morden - Winkler - Altona - Emerson - Morris
-Selkirk - Gimli - Stonewall - Woodlands - Eriksdale
-City of Winnipeg
-Dugald - Beausejour - Grand Beach
-Steinbach - St. Adolphe - Dominion City - Vita - Richer
I cannot wait for the storms to initiate here, which is supposed to happen late this evening. I'll keep updating as long as storms/tornadoes remain a threat.
Storms are having major problems initiating to the east of the cold front and south of the warm front. Looking at satellite, southern Manitoba is overcast...which could be limiting instability and strengthening the cap.
If a surface-based storm can develop in the warm sector over Southern Manitoba, it will quickly become tornadic.
Is that an isolated storm firing West-Southwest of Winnipeg in the last couple of scans?
It looks like it's firing west of the boundary that is rapidly moving east...I'm thinking the tornado threat may be over for southern Manitoba....the cirrus shield from the jet streak and the anvils from the U.S. storms prevented the cap from weakening enough.
I just got a couple of frantic phonecalls from family in western MARYLAND, as they had a tornado warning for their county. They were all scared because their town had tornado sirens installed like 3 years ago and this was the first time they went off! So I got on the GR3 and told them that their town wasn't going to get hit (circulation was about 6 miles east of them), and then they were happy. GR3 is really terrific :D
Hi, I just have one update from yesterday. There was a funnel cloud reported over my area of Winnipeg in the evening. It just hovered there, and dissipated soon after. I dunno how ot could form with no actuall storms around, but it did. Well, oh well.
Ontario Weather Service has Canada under control, and had this setup NAILED. click the name above of course for that map.
No other weather service, including Environment Canada has this tech