Swift Current area thunderstorm brings hail and flash flooding

A thunderstorm rolled through Swift Current on Saturday night, bringing along hail and flash flooding.

Environment Canada had issued a heat warning on Saturday, and warned those in the area of a severe thunderstorm headed to the city.

Storm chaser, Jenny Hagan, said she saw some areas in the southwest hit by wind damage, with the Glenbain area hit the hardest.

"It started as just a little speck on radar around Hazlet, then it grew upscale quite quickly where it developed that hail as it moved towards the Swift Current area, where it dropped around ping pong size hail," she said."It actually travelled nearly to South Dakota before finally dying out."

Hagan said the extreme heat kicked off the moisture from the crops to help develop the storm.

"There was localized flooding all along the way, a lot of tree damage within some towns south of Rockglen area," she said. "Probably about nickel size hail the time it reached that southern portion of the province but still carrying quite heavy winds."

Several more people took to social media to document the storm and its effects.