Manitoba residents frustrated they didn’t receive emergency alerts on cellphones before deadly tornado

Pamela Sul, chief administrative officer for the rural municipality near Lake Manitoba, says she saw a tornado warning on television and was able to flee her home. But she didn’t have cell coverage to receive a text-message alert on her phone or even call her neighbors to warn them about the incoming storm. She says…

2 tornadoes, 1 funnel cloud seen in southern Manitoba during wild weather day

Dark clouds, rain, hail and two tornadoes were spotted in southern Manitoba as a storm system crossed through the province on Wednesday. Environment Canada ended the tornado warnings in Manitoba but as of 4:48 a.m. CT Thursday, severe thunderstorm warnings remained in place in the regional municipality of Fisher, as well as the Jackhead, Peguis…