A wicked storm created high winds, rain and hail to Winnipeg and much of southern Manitoba Friday night.

Anthonie Koop a spokesperson for Manitoba Hydro said up to 5,000 customers lost power during the storm, which brought heavy thunder and lightning at times.

Manitoba Hydro said extra crews were called in to deal with the outage and Saturday crews were going house to house to restore power.

As of Saturday afternoon 200 customers in the Steinbach area were still without power and a few from Winnipeg, Koop said.

UPDATE: As of 4 p.m. Manitoba Hydro still have about 100 customers they are working to restore power for. Most of these are in the Lac du Bonnet area, from Bird Lake to Victoria Beach down to Star Lake. Also some out south of St. Malo and north of Steinbach.

He said a majority of people still without power are in Lac Du Bonnet and the Bird River area a majority of the calls are in regards to tree branches on hydro lines. Crews are working to remove the branches and re-energize but due to distance in some cases it is taking extra time.

Hydro said they still expect to have everyone restored today except Tulabi Falls campground where a pole and transformer fell to the ground.That is expected to be resolved tomorrow.

Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist, Jesse Wagar, said the strongest winds were in Beausejour clocking in at 83 kms per hour.

Wagar said there is no evidence of a tornado touchdown, and the winds which passed through the province are called straight line winds.

Golf ball sized hail was reported in Rathwell and dime sized hail was reported in Roland, said Wagar.

West Saint Paul and St. Andrews also saw some small hail stones.