“Professional storm chaser Greg Johnson calls Monday night’s tornado in Manitoba a “monster” and among the top four that he’s ever seen.
The Regina-based host of the CMT show Tornado Hunters had a front-row seat, within 100 metres, of the twister. For about 20 minutes, he watched as the tornado thundered through fields just north of Pierson, a small community in the southwest corner of Manitoba,” wrote a reporter for CBC on July 28, 2015.
The reporter continued, “After chasing it for a while, the tornado became rain wrapped — a storm chaser term for “no more visuals,” Johnson said.
“It’s sort of trapped in the rain [and] it got dark. That’s a pretty nasty combination and not one that I’m interested in, so we broke off our chase at that point and decided that we had enough.”
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Raymond Matt, CFP, CLU, TEP, CHS
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