Plenty of storms have been seen in the southeast corner, pumping rain and bringing winds, but one brought something a bit more serious to the area.
A tornado touched down on Wednesday near the community of Langbank, just north of Moose Mountain Provincial Park around 4:52 p.m.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Natalie Hasell says that so far damages aren't known for the area.
"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, but I haven't been able to find any additional information about that. We are collaborating with the Northern Tornado project and working with them on a survey of the area."
"People are more than welcome to share information with us if they know about the damage or about anything else that might have happened yesterday, and then we can feed that information to the team doing the survey and they'll get a hopefully a more complete picture."
The Northern Tornadoes Project team left from Winnipeg this morning, and will be doing an investigation soon, according to a post on social media.
An NTP storm survey team has left Winnipeg this morning to investigate the damage caused by the tornado in SE Saskatchewan yesterday. Damage reports can be sent to @NTP_Reports or ntp@uwo.ca. Thanks again to @706photos for reporting the damage in the Langbank area. #SKstorm pic.twitter.com/kVhYy108IW
— Northern Tornadoes Project 🇨🇦 (@westernuNTP) September 19, 2024
Hasell says that the tornado came in with a system that was very conducive to extreme weather.
"In that scenario, we were looking at a low-pressure system also with its own set of fronts, and in this case it was a mature low and the low itself was more or less in Montana, but we had an occluded front extending into southeastern Saskatchewan, we had the wave crest where the surface features of the warm front and cold front can be differentiated again into the area where a lot of that activity happens, so surface fronts allowing thunderstorms to form from the surface, as opposed to in an elevated fashion."
"From the surface increases the chance of things being severe. We had this occluded low, we had lots of rotation already in the atmosphere, and then the wind structure, in the vertical certainly suggested that rotation was possible and we had the humidity both from nearby and from a distance."
"The atmosphere became unstable, and as I mentioned, that frontal structure was the main trigger and then we had the right wind shear for severe thunderstorms to not only form, but to be an environment more conducive to the formation of tornadoes. It is rarer to have such severe weather in September or mid to late September, but not impossible and not completely unheard of."