Here is one pic, got some video but havent uploaded it yet.
THis is straight south of my house oh hwy 13.
It touched down numerous times which I caught on video but not on camera.
Scary stuff, hope people are okay!

yea seen like 20 pics of it. awesome stuff

Just got back from Elie. Prairie flour mills is trashed. One semi trailer from there was thrown into a field east of the plant. Semi over turned in the ditch, massive debry thrown through out the west end of town with loads of cops and ambulances and nosey on lookers such as our selves. Apparantly multiple twisters touched down. EEESSHH!

My sister in law was driving in from Brandon, was on the phone with my wife when she suddenly yelled "there's a tornado coming down". She hung up the phone, so we called back immediately. The girl with her said the tornado was in the air in front of them, and they were now turning around as it was about to touch down. After heading back to PlaP, they turned back to Winnipeg and saw exactly what you described with the semi in the field, and emergency vehicles just arriving. I don't think at this time they want to admit how close they were to driving into it.

Man that's some scary stuff. Hope nobody got hurt.

Holy shit Kam I hope all is safe for you and your family tonight!!!


Sitting here at work and it is nasty looking out here in the Peg'

Doing a double tonight, so not to worried about going out in the crazy weather.


Stay safe!!!

Nancy

wow that is some crazy shit, im just lookin at the sky out here and it doesnt look to pleasing, but i hope all yall are ok...

ACKA

Yep I heard the same stuff on the radio, whats going on!! must have been crazy/scary being in that stuff. Looks pretty dark now east of the city, but hopefully it misses us.
Hope everyone is safe.

What the hell, this isn't Kansas it's Manitoba! I know we get about half dozen small twisters a year but that sucker was huge! I hope no one got seriously hurt and I hope those who live out that way will be safe, I know I'd be high-tailin' it outta there right now.

pretty amazing what the weather can do, unfortunately amazing can mean destruction and it looks like 4 houses and the mill will be the casualties. The Mrs. dragged me out last night to drive by on #1....it was dark but you could sure see the mess in that field across from the mill.

Great pic Kam...home come your not on CTV yet

LOL, ya, CTV...I dont think they have a wide enough lens to fit me in!

A few pics from Prairie Flour Mill.

Wow...great pics. How are the crops looking in the area? Was there any hail that did some damage?

Reading the news paper it said the tornado that ripped through was a F4, that is some pretty scary stuff.

Glad it did not wipe out the whole town.


Weather was pretty nuts here last night, was dodging tree branches on the street in Selkirk, major winds, and walls of water.
I got stuck @ 2 intersections, but I was not sitting and waiting for the lights to turn green.

The flag pole to A&W was knocked down as I was trying to enter my parking lot a huge Maple tree blocking one side of the lot.

Stay safe folks, as I believe we are still in for 1 more night of storm watches according to TWN.

all i can say, is those are intense

Great pictures.

That was some crazy weather last night. We were boating on the Red when that blew in. For a while I was thinking about leaving the boat tied to the dock till morning but decided it would have sunk it was raining so hard. The lightning and wind was intense while we we loading up the boat. I was amazed by the amount of rain in the ditches and how many branches had blowen off the trees while we were driving home. When we got home to Woodlands there was no power. I thought we had a bad storm here and then this morning I heard about the weather in Elie. The pics I've seen on here are amazing, I was glad to hear on the news no one was killed. What's going on with our weather??

souris area and pipestone got hit bad last night but no deaths or injuries reported last i heard.

Crazy pics, dorthy went to oz on that tornado..... Man first are winters disappear now we get tornado's for summer.

Mother nature is messed up...

where have the winters disappeared? not around here.

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

very cool pics. I have a few from a tornado I saw in Ontario but it was small in comparison. Hard to describe what its like being there. They are scary as hell but extremely interesting to watch kick ass. The crap that gets spun around is crazy. The one I saw was more or less full of tobacco but you could not see it because of the crap 1 meg pixel camera from that era. I wish the cameras were better back then. 1 mega pixel was the best you could buy. LOL. I live in Barrie we had our asses kicked hard back in 1985. I have seen the crap an F4 can do. Amazing. sucked the every last bit bark off of 50 foot trees but left them standing all white with not one piece of bark left. weird. I'm hoping no one was hurt or worse.

Watched the twister in Elie on Friday from the pits at the Speedway as I was working. As destructive and horrible they are, it was amazing to watch. I pray that everyone can recover (physically, mentally and financially) from these wicked storms over the past few days.

For those who have pictures and/or video of the severe weather over the weekend, the Winnipeg Sun is asking anyone who has some to send them in.....just a suggestion...... citydesk@wpgsun.com

Was thinkin of you guys when I saw that on the news. Kinda unusual I would think. Saw a stat saying all Canada gets is 80-100 tornadoes a year vs 850-1100 in US. Pretty nasty stuff. We had one years ago in Ct and you can still see damage 25 years later.

Seen the Video on our Local News here in Saginaw Michigan Tonight, Awesome Power in those Tornado's. Glad No one Lost there Life.
God Bless. ZR

like 1500 cottages/ trailers in the whiteshell gone or damaged

WOW great pics.

I was driving down #1 thru that storm. I didn't even see the twister I guess I was too focused on keeping the truck on the road. I think I went thru right after the twister as there was a semi off the road on it's side. What I didn't miss was the hail...got some nice dmage to my hood and roof to show for it.

Wow that was some storm. If polaris had built that kinda power they would still be king. Glad to read that nobody was injured, or worse. Makes the weather here in Ukraine seem kinda boring just hot 35 above and very humid. Sorta like at home. I gotta say the chicks in Ukraine are HOT even my wife thinks so, she actually told me to go drink beer and look at chicks while she shopped cause she is positive they are outta my league. (She's right) Anyway good to read something from home to bad it was a disaster.

4 months till winter!

Yeah but what do the dudes look like? They ain't out of your leauge if the dudes are ugly.

[quote][Yeah but what do the dudes look like? They ain't out of your leauge if the dudes are ugly. /quote]

Good Point! I might still have a chance! Oh Yeah I can't afford an ex and a girlfriend. lol

Frickin' scary...my heart goes out to those who lost their home. There's a bunch of videos on youtube.

Man what a freain lightning storm lastnight. I think almost everyone on our bay had there basements flood. I have never seen it rain so hard, it seemed to come in swarms. All I was thinking lastnight was great, now watch will get another tornado

A wild weekend

Tue Jun 26 2007

Environment Canada confirmed at least seven tornadoes touched down across parts of southwestern Manitoba last weekend, with a definite possibility there may have been more.

Weather officials are continuing to assess various damage sites this week to verify exactly how many tornadoes there were.

Here's a chronology of our recent wild weather and where the ornadoes hit:

Friday, 6:20 p.m.

A tornado touches down northwest Hwy. 1 near Elie.

Friday, 6:34 p.m.

Tornado touches down east of Carman.

Friday, 6:35 p.m.

The Hwy. 1 tornado strikes Elie.

Damage: Four homes destroyed, along with a flour mill. Three other homes damaged. A semi-trailer is blown off the road. Tornado rated an F4, or devastating tornado, with wind speeds up to 417 kilometres an hour.

Friday, 7:15 p.m.
Tornado touches down near Oakville.

Damage: A farm home and some equipment. Environment Canada isn't sure whether this is the same tornado that hit Elie.

Saturday, 6:35 p.m.

Golf-ball sized hail lands near St. Lazare.

Saturday, 7:40 p.m.

Tornado touches down near Pipestone.

Saturday, 7:40 p.m.

Tornado touches down at Canupawakpa Dakota Nation.

Damage: The roof is ripped off the Dakota Ojibway Police Service.

Saturday, 8:44 p.m.

Tornado briefly touches down between Hartney and Deloraine.

Saturday, 9:30 p.m.

Two tornadoes touch down on either side of Pelican Lake Campground in the Pleasant Valley/Baldur/Belmont area.
Damage: Four campers are injured and several farm properties are destroyed. Both tornadoes are F3s, or severe tornadoes, with wind gusting up to 330 kilometres an hour.

Saturday, 11 p.m.

Separate storm cell strikes Whiteshell area -- Betula Lake, Red Rock Lake, Big Whiteshell and White Lake.

Damage: 1,500 cottages battered in mighty windstorm that blows down trees, power lines.

Here is a link to some pictures that were taken in Elie right after the Tornado did its damage. Its amazing the power that Tornados can have.

http://www.pbase.com/swp/elie_manitoba_tornado_damage

I just checked those pictures out on that link of the aftermath. Man, I don't even know what to say. Other than I can't express enough how happy I am to see people weren't hurt. I feel horrible for those that lost their homes and all their belongings. It's easy to say it's only material and material items can be replaced and that it's more important that they are safe and weren't hurt during the storm, however......I totally understand the feeling that these people have in the pit of their stomachs as they look at the rubble infront of them that an hour ealier were their homes. I truly feel for them.

A guy that I work with.....his mom and brother lost their house. There's nothing left but the foundation. Most things can be replaced, it's true, but there's only one thing that he wants to find....his dad's ashes. I can't imagine how that must feel.

I do have a question though.....did anyone in that area know that there was going to be a tornado? Like was there a siren or anything, announced on the radio/tv, something? Or was it hey look up there, I think that's a tornado, I should go for cover? I didn't hear anything on the station I was listening to until after the damage was done, that and I watched it from a far distance.

i recall seeing some warnings on the weathernetwork earlier that evening, but i have no idea what the local warning system is like...

I know of someone in the Baldur area whose farm was destroyed Saturday - apparently they got a phone call from a neighbor warning them so they headed to the basement and within minutes the house, barn, and everything else was levelled. They were relatively unscathed in the basement but without that phone call, it would have been a different story.

Tornado chasers from Oklahoma were in SW Mb for the events there, they knew 6 days before that a storm event was likely with tornadoes, and they headed up. Funny how they knew this was going to happen yet environment canada didn't have a clue. U of Illinois was also present and had the same info. Luckily, noone was killed. Makes you think, don't it? You have the video, Kam?

My nephew lives in Napinka Mb. that is 20 minutes south of Pipestone. He text messaged me this morning and told me that he could see the tornado from his yard.

wth? more tornado warnings on the news?

warnings gone now, thank god

Wildoat, I do have video of the one that was coming at us but it pales in comparison to the others that are on the internet.
We never had any warning from enviroment canada in our area that we knew of. The only warning I got was Bulldogger calling me to go beware of the funnel cloud heading our way, then horny onion texting me the same thing. Unfortunately, alll cell service and phone service dissapeared after that so we couldnt contact anyone.

Now, I am no meterologist but a tornado watch for our area last night??? Cmon, it was 14 fricken degrees with humidity in the 70s.....wtf???? Are they going to cry wolf every fricken night now to try and cover their asses??????

The more pictures and videos I see the more shocked and amazed I get that no one was killed or at the very least injured!!!!

I remember hearing on the news after this past weekend that they are now in full agreement that we need a proper warning system put in place and that they have asked for financial help from the government. Or something on those lines. Either way, it's sad that it takes this to trigger the thought of getting this done. Again thankfully no one was hurt. I agree entirely, the more I watch of these videos and the more I look at the pictures, I can't shake my head enough in amazement that people weren't severely hurt. How fortunate!

I know last August 20th, when that Funnel cloud hit, it was long gone before it was even announced on The Weather Network. I went out to bale hay, hoping to get some off before the storm hit and spotted the Tornado in the distance. It was on the ground when I saw it, reports were it was just a funnel cloud, but trust me, it was down. I went straight back to the house and got the camera and cam-corder. AND I phoned the storm line for the Weather network to report this. Well wouldn't you know, you get a stupid answering machine! Isn't that re-assuring. It was long gone by the time they announced the report. Isn't it nice to know we can rely on that for safety? HA! So yes, we need a warning system in place and that's that!

Seems the past few summers now the weather has been getting more severe and more unpredictable. Things are changing and the Province needs to change in order to keep us all safe.

I just got home from 5 18hr days of work in the Whiteshell, putting the power lines back up. Power is on. there were 3 Line crews, 2 small line crews, and 2 pole crews working to restore power, + the local district staff, probably about 100+ people involved.
Sledding in that area is not going to be the same, thats assuming they are even able to clean up the trails in time. It is INCREDIBLE how many trees are blown down in Betula, Big whiteshell area! The area is UGLY with damage.
Barrett

If those storm chasers from Oklahoma knew about the storm event 6 days before it happened why could they not get information out to people that could have warned people about the possibility of tornadoes?

Your guess is as good as mine. They were here and it wasn't because they were just visiting. I would bet if they knew about it, they would suspect our country's weather people would too.

CLEARLY our weather people know NOTHING