The two-part severe weather system that hit southern Saskatchewan in the last 48 hours has left some staggering rainfall totals for the southwest.
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, Cypress Hills emerged from storms, collecting the most precipitation in the province, at 90.4 millimetres. Klintonel, 25 kilometres north of Eastend, received 64.5 millimetres, Lucky Lake registered 59.7 millimetres, and Swift Current recorded 44.4 millimetres.
Natalie Hasell, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said southern Saskatchewan experienced a variety of weather in the last 36 hours.
"I wouldn't be surprised if some areas had flash floods with these amounts of precipitation," she said. "As we've seen in Manitoba the last several days, a number of places out there flooded. With these amounts being reported, it wouldn't surprise me if people are having a hard time with the roads or their basements."
The massive amounts of precipitation were caused by multiple systems converging on the region creating some instability in the atmosphere.
"The front comes from a system from the north and the flow of the air comes up in the warm sector bringing in that moisture to your area to the western part of the province," she explained. "The system in Montana is sitting in the warm sector of that first system from the north, so it's also bringing in its own moisture feed but it's part of the same moisture feed in a way."
Hail was recorded in the Ponteix and Weyburn areas on Tuesday nights. Severe weather struck again last night near Langbank at 4:52 p.m. with a tornado.
"The one piece of social media where we have a photo of the tornado, and it's from a credible source, did suggest that there was damage," she said.