Sunday afternoon thunderstorm brings hail, rain, but not considered severe

A Sunday afternoon thunderstorm in Saskatoon brought pea-sized hail, heavy rain, and wind gusts up to 46 km/h.

Environment Canada said the storm was not classified as ‘severe’ as it didn’t hit the correct criteria for the classification.

“Criteria for severe thunderstorm is peak wind gusts greater than 90 kilometres an hour, hail the size of nickels or larger, or rainfall totaling 50 millimeters or greater in an hour or less,” Environment Canada meteorologist

Blaine Lowry said. “Based on the reports we’ve had so far on the storm, it wouldn’t be classified as severe.”

Outta seemingly nowhere.. a thunderstorm in #yxe

Some hail and quite a bit of rain coming down right now. #skstorm pic.twitter.com/ZIoK67A3I7

— brady lang (@BradyLangSK) August 25, 2019

Lowry said Saskatoon should be in the clear for a bit, but there are still other storms in the province.

He said one near Corning, west of Kenosee Lake, had reports of quarter-sized hail early Sunday afternoon.

“Keep your eyes to the sky if you’re anywhere else in the province because there’s quite a few storms around.”

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