Destructive windstorm leaves damage for NW Calgary residents
Posted Jun 2, 2025 7:16 pm.
Last Updated Jun 2, 2025 7:38 pm.
Downed trees, property damage and winds so wild you would think you were on a movie set.
Mother nature tore through parts of Calgary on Saturday night in the form of a windstorm preceded by a big drop in temperature.
660 NewsRadio meteorologist Kevin Stanfield says the city hit a high of 31 C during the day Saturday. By 8 p.m. it was only down to 28 C, but then by 9 p.m. the temperature dropped to 12 C.
“It came on very suddenly, very cold air associated with this,” he says. “There was a very large system that was rolling by us to the north and it produced a massive wall of wind.”
Stanfield says wind gusts at Calgary International Airport were measured at 78 km/h.
Bowness resident Kathleen Chabot was inside her home with her husband and saw it unfold through her window with clouds rolling in from nearby Canada Olympic Park.
“It was wild,” she says. “I think it was dust kicking up, but it was almost like a brown fog on the hill.
“The clouds were turning, and we were like ‘oh those are almost like tornado clouds'”.
She says they heard a large boom just before 10 p.m.
It was the sound of a massive tree being clipped at its ankles. The falling tree destroyed a car, ripped up a neighbours yard and pierced a windshield.
“Our neighbour had a tree limb go straight through her windshield, another neighbour had a brand new motorcycle that got crushed by a tree,” she says.
Chabot says her six-month-old baby slept through it all.
