Monday night's storms along the Manitoba/ Saskatchewan border were witnessed by a construction crew from Niverville.

Kris Dueck, owner of Stud's Construction says for the last week they've been building a shed in Gainsborough, Saskatchewan, which is one of the locations where Environment Canada speculates a tornado may have touched down.

Dueck says while wrapping up their work for the day around 6pm Monday, they noticed a big storm brewing to the south and made sure to properly secure the building for the night. They then hopped into the truck and headed towards their hotel in Carnduff. But their evening plans would quickly change when they spotted a team of professional storm chasers on the side of the road.

"My two (employees) in the truck instantly got giddy as did I," recalls Dueck. "We pulled over, stopped and chatted with them and they said that road, that highway was the place to be (Monday) if you were looking for a tornado."

Dueck describes the vehicles as something you would see in the movie, Back To The Future. Built as a dome that basically hovers across the road, Dueck notes inside they are filled with computers and three point harnesses to allow the team to drive into any kind of weather.

He notes for the next hour or two they followed the storm chasers and continued to stare at the sky.

"Winds were picking up quite a bit and you could see the clouds moving in so many different directions," he says. "Then finally about an hour after we had started following these chasers, we had the video camera out and we caught just the tail end of one of the funnel clouds touching down. It was maybe five miles away, so we didn't really get a good view of it."

Dueck notes the whole event was a little bit comical because while trying to watch the funnel cloud and deal with sloppy roads from the pouring rain, he had to navigate the truck around deer and wild animals that were running for safety.

After the storm passed through, the damage was assessed Tuesday morning. Though there are reports of damage to farm buildings, downed power lines and a section of asphalt being torn up on the Manitoba side of the border, Dueck says his construction site survived the storm without any damage.