Published on Jun. 29, 2026, 4:20 PM
More storms likely with ‘very, very unsettled pattern’: Environment Canada
Severe thunderstorms on Sunday swept through beleaguered western Manitoba — still recovering from storms earlier this month — bringing at least one tornado that a storm chaser called a “monster.”
“I’ve chased a few big tornadoes here in Canada, [and] it definitely was one of the stronger, top three strongest, Canadian tornadoes I’ve seen,” said Aaron Jayjack.
“I was terrified people were about to die from this thing. Thankfully, that did not happen.”
Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed a tornado touched down southwest of Rossburn — about 275 kilometres to the west of Winnipeg — around 8 p.m. The weather agency is also working with the Northern Tornadoes Project to look into reports of another near Roblin around 8:55 p.m.
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Jayjack was tracking supercells throughout the afternoon that struggled to turn into anything more until the evening, when one “went very, very, very fast from nothing to a violent tornado in … less than an hour or so.”
The first swirls of dust began about three metres away from him, just south of Birtle, southwest of Rossburn. Within 10 minutes, “it peaked into a pretty big monster tornado,” Jayjack said.