Environment Canada is issuing a tornado warning for several communities throughout southern Manitoba.

Update at 6:11 p.m. Central Daylight Time Monday, Environment Canada has updated a tornado warning for South Central Manitoba.

Extra care and attention should be exercised. The following localities are included in the warning: Winkler, Morden, Miami, Deerwood, Carman, Brunkild and Grey.

Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible. Take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches. Please consult local media for more information.

 

Update at 6:07 p.m.:

Tornado warning continued for:

   R.M. of Portage la Prairie incl. St. Ambroise, Man. (052310)

Current details:

At 6:07 p.m. CDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible.

This severe thunderstorm is located near Portage la Prairie, moving east at 35 km/h.

Hazard: Tornado, 90 km/h wind gusts and quarter size hail.

Locations impacted include:

High bluff and Popular Point.

At 5:43 p.m. the tornado warning extended to areas around Portage la Prairie, Headingly, and Carman.

The warnings were issued just before 5 p.m.

Extra care and attention should be exercised in and around the following localities: Neepawa, Carberry and Austin. Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a severe thunderstorm that is possibly producing a tornado. Damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall are also possible. Take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches. Please consult local media for more information.

At 3:53 p.m. this afternoon, Environment Canada indicated that weather conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing large hail and heavy rain.

The reason these things are happening, beyond the fact that we have low-level moisture and an unstable atmosphere developing, is a frontal structure associated with a low-pressure system, and this is often the reason behind thunderstorms in the prairies. So as we have some daytime heating going on, the air mass becomes unstable and the thing to trigger that upward motion that we need for thunderstorms to form," says Environment Canada.

Current watches and warnings

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