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Heads up! Nasty storms coming in.  
Warnings should be issued anytime, potential for hail.  
Stay safe....

Sure blew up on radar in a hurry. Am heading home on Trans Canada from the West and added a pano looking toward Virden/Brandon as of a few mins ago...  
 
Radar is of course at:  
http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=xfw

I am in my basement right now and it's nearly pitch black. Scary stuff!

I'm not an expert but hesselwood road and Trans Canada looking south looks an awful lot like at least a funnel cloud.

Emergency Alert interrupted the Jays game just now. Can't remember that ever happening. Nasty around Melita area.

Around Alexander torrential down pour guessing at least marble hail.

Hailing in Brandon. Bigger than peas

Hail was about grape size on Rosser ave East. Still the occasional shot on the roof or door. So loud!

Nasty hail out in the east end. Not golf ball sized but still big enough to rattle the windows

When this hits Carberry can someone please post here if there was hail or not?

Power goes out you have nothing except your cell phone if it's charged . Put it on Cklq they are just cruising along playing music . Our so-called alarm system in the city how would you ever hear it with the wind roaring and the hail coming down . I saw funnels forming and then going back up into the sky so I went downstairs and hid in the basement . There's got to be a better warning system then this .

Power goes out you have nothing except your cell phone if it's charged . Put it on Cklq they are just cruising along playing music . Our so-called alarm system in the city how would you ever hear it with the wind roaring and the hail coming down . I saw funnels forming and then going back up into the sky so I went downstairs and hid in the basement . There's got to be a better warning system then this .

If you don''t have to drive or be outdoors don''t be. Was driving home from work with co-workers and we couldn''t see in front of us. I''m home now. Raining pretty hard out there. The hail was pretty huge  
 
Edited by Amandablacksmith, 2016-07-20 18:01:40

Educate yourself on how and why tornados form, and what to look for during a storm.  
All I know is that the teal/green tinge to a system indicates hail.

Home safe and sound. Rain coming over the Daly on 18th about 15-20 min ago was as heavy as I've been in. Rain gauges on the weather page picked up 18 and 28mm but wouldn't be surprised if there were areas that saw much more.  
 
Hoping that anyone in areas that saw more serious parts of the storm is okay.  
 
Added another picture from about an hour ago looking Brandon from the West that shows just how dark things were at the time. From radar most of it is now to the East of Brandon but a little more to the West that may still effect us.  
http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=xfw

eddiek said "Power goes out you have nothing except your cell phone if it's charged . Put it on Cklq they are just cruising along playing music . Our so-called alarm system in the city how would you ever hear it with the wind roaring and the hail coming down . I saw funnels forming and then going back up into the sky so I went downstairs and hid in the basement . There's got to be a better warning system then this . "

CKLQ constantly interrupted the music saying there were warnings out. Then u wait for the one 8n brandon to sound..gee

about 44 mm here in Riverheights, marble hail, lots of wind. My poor plants.

A tornado warning interrupted the news for the Westman area..anyone else hear it.

Power out for over two hours, anyone hear how repair is going? I'm running out of battery life and didn't get anywhere on hydro site or phone.

eddiek said "Power goes out you have nothing except your cell phone if it's charged . Put it on Cklq they are just cruising along playing music . Our so-called alarm system in the city how would you ever hear it with the wind roaring and the hail coming down . I saw funnels forming and then going back up into the sky so I went downstairs and hid in the basement . There's got to be a better warning system then this . "

You can blame anyone you want for not being prepared, but it is really up to you to find out how and what to do in an emergency.  
 
 
Take the 20 minutes to learn what you need to do.  
This handbook is the perfect place to start.  
http://emerg.brandon.ca/images/pdf/bestHandbook.pdf  
 
For more information about Brandon''s full emergency plan, The main page is here:  
http://emerg.brandon.ca  
 
Edited by loeog, 2016-07-20 20:32:34

Not that I've seen, I live right in town

Tornado watch, heat advisory ended for Brandon.

Anyone get hail in the Souris area?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado  
 
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/weather-preparedness/tornado-signs/

From the photos I seen, one of the buildings at Glendale Industries on the north hill took a beating from the storm. The walls are right off the slab.  
 
Edited by The_Young_Man, 2016-07-20 21:46:30

So happynana and loeog in all your sarcastic wisdom. I turned CKLQ on at 5:15 pm and until 5:30 pm there was only music. If my cell phone had not been charged with out power to the house how do you think I could have got that info? Maybe a carrier pigeon? Good grief if all you can do in a dangerous situation is be sarcastic then who needs you! My neighbor and I both saw the funnel cloud that ended up over the Victoria Inn one block from my house. I went to the basement bathroom and waited it out so yes I do know what to do!Plus no other sound was heard here except wind and hail and thunder. So really get a grip!

I still believe the warning system is a little useless. Someone said listen for the alert...listen for it? A tornado warning siren should not need to be listened for. You should be able to hear it even when you are not listening for it. I was sleeping when the storm hit-when I laid down there wasn't much of anything going on in the sky- no warning, nothing much on radar, just the thunderstorm watch. This one came up fast-it was right overhead when I woke up. Had the warning alert sounded I wouldn't have heard it. A good old fashioned siren-much more effective.

This looks like basically the same setup I saw looking South toward Deleau-ish. Thankfully we were at a safer distance than in this video but close enough to make you add a few km to the speedometer:  

Funnel cloud touch down between Souris and Reston #mbstorm #bdnmb pic.twitter.com/iDYigOwYIy

&mdash: Matt Kiazyk (@mattkiazyk) July 20, 2016

It's interesting to see people gripe about not educating themselves about what to do in severe weather.  
 
If you choose not to educate yourself then really it is your stupidity when disaster strikes. The basic (simple) rule should be if you are in doubt seek shelter.  
 
If you can access the internet (on a phone or computer) our weather sites update with watches & warnings as soon as Environment Canada issues them.  
 
Bookmark- https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/alerts and/or  
http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/mb-52_metric_e.html  
 
Now any alert like a siren would probably be based on the EC warning, which would be delayed & probably be too late to be of much help.  
 
If you can access twitter follow the #MBstorm hashtag.  
 
Bookmark- https://twitter.com/hashtag/mbstorm?src=hash  
 
Many trained storm chasers post in real time on this tag, and many regular folk do as well. Their posts frequently trigger the Tornado Warnings because they are the eyes & ears on the ground. This buys you some time.  
 
If you can access Facebook the Manitoba Tornado Watch page posts VERY fast when weather is bad. They post watches/warnings minutes before they are generated elsewhere. They tend to be first for official warnings.  
 
Bookmark- https://www.facebook.com/ManitobaTornado/  
 
Radar can be viewed here:  
 
Bookmark-  
https://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=MBX®ion=a3&lat=49.91999817&lon=-99.94999695&label=Brandon%2c%20Manitoba  
 
AND/OR http://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=xfw  
 
 
Please take the time to educate yourself with the links others have provided. Great info on how to stay safe and prepare for when disaster strikes!

This storm system has been all over my weather app, FB feed and news outlets all week. I feel people in the area had to time to find out about it before last evening.  
 
I don't watch TV live (no cable or satellite) or even the radio usually, So I wouldn't get "we interrupt this broadcast..." warnings ever.  
 
Because of this I have a weather app that has push notifications for severe weather and I follow some west man storm pages on FB.  
 
This weather system was on it's way since Monday. No one knew exactly what it was going to do to, but there was enough information to make me keep checking in.  
I have no idea what my town's warning system is, I'm pretty sure there is none. My job to keep myself informed.