Multiple tornado warnings issued for southeast Saskatchewan

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 8:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) issued respective tornado warnings for southeast Saskatchewan precocious Thursday afternoon, reporting damaging winds, aggravated rainfall and ample hail.

At 4:20 p.m. CST, ECCC issued a tornado informing for Stoughton, Arcola, Lampman, Bienfait, North Portal, Alameda and Oxbow. Shortly earlier 5 p.m. CST, an exigency alert was issued for the area, informing residents to enactment indoors.

Three much tornado warnings were issued implicit the pursuing 30 minutes, encompassing much than 2 twelve different communities successful the southeast. 

Kyle McAulay, a meteorologist with ECCC, said precocious Thursday day that tornadoes hadn't yet been verified, but that it had heard from respective tempest chasers successful the Estevan country of reports that a tornado had touched down. 

He said that a 2nd tornado informing was made for the Regina country respective minutes later, besides accompanied by reports of tornadoes touching down.

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Soon aft that a third tornado informing was issued for conscionable southbound of Saskatoon. There person not been reports of a tornado touching down successful that area.

"We decidedly privation to promote watching for it astatine a harmless distance. If you bash spot signs of a funnel unreality oregon tornado, and a tornado informing successful your region, you should beryllium taking structure successful a basement, oregon successful a debased area, oregon successful a beardown interior of a gathering with nary windows," helium said.

Harrison Webster said helium saw a tornado interaction down a fewer kilometres southeast of White City. 

"We conscionable got location and we got an exigency alert, truthful didn't truly deliberation overmuch of it. My woman said, 'hey, travel and look astatine the tornado.' So we walked retired and definite capable determination was a funnel unreality southeast of us," helium said. "It was benignant of little formed erstwhile we archetypal looked astatine it, but it benignant of solidified for a bit, got a small stronger, past it dissipated reasonably quickly."