A trough of low pressure moved over southern Manitoba on Thursday evening, we were expecting severe storms to fire and move west to east in the evening, however due to capping (which is a layer of warm air at the troposphere that prevents storms from developing) in the evening storms never fired in the southwest which is a good thing because they didn't need anymore rainfall. As the trough continued to move east in the Red River Valley it encountered an area where more elevated lift was present at 850mb, also as I had expected the capping weakened at around 2am in the Red River Valley and as a result massive storms fired in the Manitou, Pilot Mound areas at 2am.
The storms went on to produce golf ball size hail and continued to strengthen, there was at least a few signs on radar of rotation by snowflake which is at the border of MB/ND by Pembina Valley Provincial Park. The storms then developed into a line which gave off frequent and constant lightning, hail to golf balls, flooding rains, and some damage from wind but not a lot. The storms missed Winnipeg completely at times it looked like they were coming straight at me on radar, however if it had of hit there probably would have been power outages. Here are some photos of the storms that occurred that night... Courtesy goes to the people on the twitter accounts...
Storms fired at around 5am west of Winnipeg and entered at around 6am and was the culprit for a tree explosion in the Tuxedo area of Winnipeg, tree splinters drove through a duplex building walls and windows. There was also numerous reports of street flooding with the 2 thunderstorms that hit the city. As much as 3 inches fell in the south end of the city, that was hardest hit.
Flooding also occurred in Saint Anne photo from Cathleen Roy, and a storm cloud in La Broquerie from Tracey Benson Kokil. The rainfall totals from the storm are as follows....
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