The skies lit up over southern Manitoba Thursday night as a lightning storm dropped hail the size of softballs over some areas, caused power outages and whipped up a tornado that touched down in the southwest corner of the province. Environment Canada confirmed a tornado touched down near Waskada, 280 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg just north of the U.S. border, in the evening. No
damage was reported. The twister followed a series tornado and severe weather warnings through the southwest. Amid those warnings, nearly 100 km/h winds and huge hail swept across the south, knocking out power to thousands. About 18,000 Manitoba Hydro customers were left without power during the storm, about 550 of them in Winnipeg, Hydro spokesperson Bruce Owen said. READ MORE
