According to weather experts, a tornado did touch down in Winnipeg on Monday evening during the severe thunderstorm in the\u00a0Whyte Ridge area.<\/p>\n
Manitoba Storm Watch confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down during the storm with a narrow path of damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tornado did end up causing extensive damage to a home, and multiple large trees blew down. A FreshCo grocery store property was hit along the same path, and their shopping cart corral was tossed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Experts are still analyzing the situation to find out exactly where it landed and ended up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While no one in Winnipeg received a tornado alert on their phones on Monday evening, the orange severe thunderstorm warning was up for most of the afternoon. This included a section that shared that tornadoes were a possibility because of the low-pressure system.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Experiences from residents in the area<\/p>\n
A few residents in the Whyte Ridge area commented on the post with their experience of the wind gusts and quick tornado.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I live fairly close to where the tornado touched down,” says Lynne. “The trees in my area were swirling around in a circle. I went downstairs!!”<\/p>\n
Others reported they knew a big weather event was happening because of the sound.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Sounded like a train as it went over our house\u2026crazy rain and wind, continuous thunder and lightning,” said Pamela.<\/p>\n
While Friday afternoon has a possibility of a thunderstorm in Winnipeg, as of Thursday morning, it isn’t expected to be severe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
– For up to date weather, check out the Jani King Weather Page<\/a> on CHVN or stream the station live<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to weather experts, a tornado did touch down in Winnipeg on Monday evening during the severe thunderstorm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-775735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}