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WINNIPEG -- Southwest Manitoba was hit with a severe storm on Sunday night, leaving damage, flooding, and a tornado in its wake. Further investigation is continuing.”The first storm produced anywhere from 100 mm to 120 mm of rain in Brandon, and the second storm dumped another 50 mm.In Brandon, stores, parking lots and the Brandon Regional Hospital basement flooded.The province of Manitoba issued a warning Sunday afternoon of overland flooding and high winds for the area.“A weather system may release 75 to 100 millimetres of rain in these areas in the next three to four days, starting this afternoon,” said the warning.Heavy rains and high winds moved into Southern Manitoba Sunday afternoon and evening, hitting the Brandon area hardest, flooding streets, stores and spawning a possible tornado.The record in Brandon for wettest day was set on June 1, 1902, with 141 mm of rain in total.The hospital said Monday that the basement flooded, damaging several departments.The system that spawned the storms is likely to stay out of the area for Monday, but may move back into southwestern and central Manitoba Tuesday, said Folijk.“Staff worked through the night to clean up the water and minimize the damage. CBC News: Weather Centre Nationwide, you can view weather on CBC News Network, 7 days a week. The province of Manitoba issued a warning Sunday afternoon of overland flooding and high winds for the area. Designated patient visitation will go-ahead today, Monday, June 29th from 3 pm – 7 pm with the same guidelines in place.”Hours after the province issued a high wind and flood warning, Mother Nature proved them right.“We will keep working forward and try to protect what we can.”Monday morning, the cleanup began in Brandon, where homes and stores flooded and trees were toppled all over the city.Skatch said a foot bridge that connects the north and south sides of the community had been destroyed by the swollen, rushing river, but the vehicular bridge on Main Street was holding up.“Areas in the southwest of Manitoba, including Virden and Brandon, could see up to 175 millimetres of rain during this time.”“They did restoration to our dam a couple years ago, so we’re probably in better shape than we were a few years ago,” she said, telling 680 CJOB Manitoba Infrastructure is monitoring the dam.Toonie-sized hail was found near Clear Lake, Man.“At this point, we’re all good.”Funnel clouds are not considered tornadoes unless they touch the ground.Outside of Brandon, the storms arced upwards towards Minnedosa and Alonza, Man. Environment … Clean up efforts will continue today,” they said in a statement.The Little Saskatchewan River roars mightily through Minnedosa today.Minnedosa Mayor Pat Skatch said the community was pulling together to clean up Monday after the storm left the river running through town as well as the community’s ditches, full.“We’ll need to continue to look into it today.”Tornado warning in effect for a storm north of Brandon.“Yesterday afternoon, a band of very slow-moving thunderstorms developed over the region and unfortunately decided to sit over Brandon for a couple of hours,” said Frolijk, “and they were hit again later in the evening by another band of thunderstorms.”At this point, only funnel clouds have been confirmed, said Brad Frolijk, meteorologist with ECCC.Skatch said the dam that protects Minnedosa was holding as of shortly after noon Monday.Environment and Climate Change Canada told 680 CJOB Monday morning that they were working to confirm the tornado.“We had no actual reports of seeing a tornado,” said Folijk, “But we did start getting then pictures of tree damage, coming from strong winds, and then reports of some structural damage.”A structure near Rapid City, Man. Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a tornado warning for an area just north of Brandon. and dumped up to 160 mm of rain in some spots, Frolijk added.At about 4 p.m. was severely damaged due to severe winds, and may have been the biggest casualty of the possible tornado.Scheduled surgeries and endoscopy procedures are cancelled for today, Monday, June 29th as a result of water damage in the Medical Device Reprocessing area. It added there were snapped trees and property damage in the area.