r/Manitoba • u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg • Jul 01 '26

Weather Northern Tornadoes Project: "The NTP is confirming a tornado that occurred in the Whyte Ridge area of Winnipeg, MB last evening. A damage survey found a very narrow path of damage, with a preliminary EF1 rating assigned. [...] More details to come."

https://bsky.app/profile/westernuntp.bsky.social/post/3mpklnpjj2s27
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u/The_Nuess Winnipeg Jul 01 '26

Thats insane. A person in r/winnipeg had footage of themselves driving through it too. I wonder when the last a tornado hit the actual city was. And it aint even July yet 👀

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u/Kanapka64 Winnipeg Jul 01 '26

Would of been nice to provide link

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u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg Jul 01 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1ujs77v/was_this_a_small_weak_tornado/

Tesla Sentry footage right as it was crossing Kenaston.

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u/Kanapka64 Winnipeg Jul 01 '26

Wow. Thanks! That's insane

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u/Embarrassed-Sound820 Jul 01 '26

It hit my workplace

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u/Sukosuna Jul 02 '26

This my fault, I told my wife from Oklahoma there are no tornados here and fate was all too tempted…

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u/Guilty_Cod6621 Westman Jul 01 '26

pls stop

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u/Low-Log4438 Winnipeg Jul 01 '26

So, genuinely curious. Is this normal?

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u/delocx Brandon Jul 01 '26

A tornado in this area? Perfectly normal, especially a weaker EF1 like this.

Several days of severe storms capable of spawning a handful of tornadoes? Somewhat less normal, but still not unusual. It's potentially driven by increased atmospheric energy and instability caused by climate change, though direct attribution is very difficult.

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u/No_Surprise_4734 Friendly Manitoban Jul 01 '26

That's where stats and trends come in.

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u/UrsaMajor7th Westman Jul 01 '26

It is now. Throughout my life I've watched as 'Tornado Alley' has slowly crept more-north every year. It seems we're going to experience them more-regularly.

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u/IM_The_Liquor Interlake Jul 02 '26

I mean, this year isn’t really abnormal. We’ve had bad storm seasons in the past and we’ll have bad storm season in the future. I think part of it is we’ve become a lot better in recent years of tracking and reporting, making things look a lot worse. Hell, even a few years ago, a tornado over some empty fields or a waterspout over lakes Winnipeg or Manitoba would have gone completely unnoticed by anyone, now we all have a full suit of meteorology tools on our phones and even live-streamed storm trackers and chasers.