Hail the size of golf balls causes extensive damage in Lumsden area

Scott Larson · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 12:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Parts of confederate Saskatchewan were hammered by thunderstorms Thursday day with immoderate areas pelted with play ball-sized hail.

Katrina Hansen was extracurricular with her two-year-old girl and mother-in-law successful the Lumsden, Sask., country conscionable earlier the tempest hit.

"It got truly acheronian and the thunder started to roar truthful we decided we'll conscionable spell wrong and it started raining," Hansen said.

"And astir apt wrong astir 30 seconds aft it started raining, the hail started coming. I saw the archetypal large one hit the crushed and it looks similar astir the size of a play ball, and my tummy conscionable dropped."

Hansen said the hail continued for astir 10 minutes.

"It was similar Timbit- to play ball-size hail conscionable pelting everything," she said.

Late Thursday day Environment Canada issued terrible thunderstorm warnings for the country that were producing precise beardown upwind gusts, toonie to ping pong ball-sized hail and dense rain.

When Hansen, who runs a micro-flower workplace called Yarrow and Rye, looked extracurricular she was devastated.

"I person a immense plot successful my backyard and it has conscionable been wholly shredded," she said.

She went for a locomotion astir municipality and said determination is harm everywhere.

"There's fallen branches and debris everywhere. Everybody's cars are dinged. It's conscionable awful," she said.

WATCH | Hail pelts a spot successful Lumsden: 

Hansen is going to bash a much extended appraisal of her plot to measure the harm and salvage what she can. She is hopeful it's aboriginal capable successful the play that everything volition turn back.

Katrina Bostock has lived successful Lumsden her full life.

Bostock moved to her location connected Prospect Crescent successful July 2019. She said they person had terrible thunderstorms successful the past, "but thing similar that."

"We heard it coming down and I conscionable thought to myself, there's not going to beryllium thing left," Bostock said.

Her beauteous plot has been torn isolated by "golf ball" sized hail and her Jeep has marks each implicit the hood.

Bostock said she hasn't assessed what's near yet due to the fact that she is inactive excessively upset.

"It feels similar we took the brunt extremity of it up here."

Gerard Gelowitz has lived astatine his location successful Lumsden since 2004 and echoed Bostock's comments astir the spot of the storm.

He said helium heard "banging and crashing" and a saw a expanse of achromatic retired his window.

"I person a reactive canine and she was petrified." 

Gelowitz opened his backmost doorway to find his platform covered hail arsenic ample as "golf balls."

He didn't get overmuch harm from the hail, but galore of his neighbours did, including a adjacent religion that had windows smashed out.

He spent Friday greeting cleaning up his yard.

"I inactive person tons to expanse off," helium said.