By 5pm one tornado was confirmed and reports of tennis ball sized hail were included in multiple tornado warnings throughout the evening, from Rocky Mountain House to Drumheller, Alberta.
Brief tornado near Sunchild, AB 5:02pm #abstorm pic.twitter.com/DVeta5rAhE— Craig Hilts (@CraigHilts71) July 9, 2017
Storm continue to maintain maximum strength late overnight and by 11:30pm cells began to quickly pop up in western Saskatchewan. Here is an image grab of echo tops radar and lightning at that time:This storm is a monster east of olds #abstorm pic.twitter.com/GTWU4tQE5x— Attila The Fun (@jpmwd) July 10, 2017
A day 2 moderate risk was issues in the early afternoon and that is expected to be expanded by morning for most areas of southern Saskatchewan on Monday afternoon. Extremely large hail with damaging wind gusts and tornadoes. Link to PASPC Current Outlook
Many storm chasers are committed to converge on the area, such as the world record holder for tornado intercepts Roger Hill and his Silver Lining tour company. Also world famous storm chaser, Reed Timmer tweeted this:
We will continue to monitor this situation closely and posts will be frequent on our Facebook page.DISCUSSION: tornado threat increasing for west-central MN this Sunday evening. Read discussion here: https://t.co/H1ZvYdVHE5 @AccuWeatherPro pic.twitter.com/g3LCSuI6Ij— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) July 9, 2017
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