Australia severe weather 2007/8 season

[Supercell Hunters]

Holy crap!!!!!! Woken up by a large intense thunderstorm, damaging winds gusts up to 75km/hr and over 80mm of rain in 30mins! Serious flash flooding going on here on island streets, drains overflowing and parks underwater already! Now its still pouring down monsoonal incredibly with some lightning strikes and booming thunder and expecting to see going over 100mm in hour!

More showers and storms this afternoon before a change.

[Supercell Hunters]

Total of 91mm from that huge storm from this morning, nice heating here atm before 2nd round of severe cells coming, likely to get something even outlooks to northwest and southwest towards the coast.

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

New South Wales

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for FLASH FLOODING, LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the

NORTHERN RIVERS,

NORTHERN TABLELANDS and parts of the

MID NORTH COAST Forecast Districts.

Issued at 2:03 pm Thursday, 27 March 2008.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce very heavy rainfall, flash flooding, large hailstones and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Armidale and Tenterfield.

Ballina had a rainfall observation of 65 mm in about half an hour this morning.