An intense thunderstorm system caused significant rainfall, damaging winds, and hail to pelt communities across southeast Saskatchewan. Meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, Crawford Luke, says they heard reports of tennis-ball-sized hail near Torquay, with accumulations of smaller-sized hail in Midale.

“Low pressure was sitting over the southern part of the province, and a bunch of showers were circulating it, and then in that low southeast of the province, we had this complex of thunderstorms fire up right on the international border."

The wind and hail caused significant property damage, with garages and sheet-metal-covered buildings seeing the most impact. Alongside damage to roofing materials, and fallen and broken trees.

Luke explains that the damage was likely

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