Australia Severe Weather Season 2008/9

[pottyprof]

Some good shots there Matt.

Stunning shelf..

[Supercell Hunters]

Thanks! Wonder why no one else reply? Isn't anyone else jealous!?

We ended up having hottest day since February at 32 degrees under very hot gusty NW lies. Was 30 degrees after sunset! That was very hot! Temperature cooled down this morning at 12 degrees which is coolest since September.

Looks like another severe storms outbreak for Northern NSW and SEQLD again from Wednesday. Temperatures would certainly kick into 30's again for most of areas with high dewpoints into low to mid 20's. A little bit early at this stage.

[BARRY]

g'day mate , nice pics there but not jealous as i don't like hot weather

[Supercell Hunters]

Forecast for Tuesday

Isolated showers. Light to moderate southeast to northeast winds.

Lismore: Mostly fine. Min: 15 Max: 26

Forecast for Wednesday

Scattered showers and thunderstorms. North to northeast winds.

Lismore: Few showers, chance thunderstorms. Min: 17 Max: 25

Forecast for Thursday

Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms. North to northeast winds.

Lismore: Few showers. Chance thunderstorm. Min: 17 Max: 30

Yay! Only showers for my year 12 formal on Tuesday evening at Ballina RSL Club. Thank god storms on day after onwards. I don't understand Lismore's forecast saying mostly fine when forecasted regionally 'isolated showers' lol.

Looks like more storms outbreak from Wednesday is on cards! Bring it some more!

[Supercell Hunters]

Stormy here today. STW should be up for cells down south moving up northwards. Might get a storm or two this evening.

[mac]

Thanks! Wonder why no one else reply? Isn't anyone else jealous!?

We ended up having hottest day since February at 32 degrees under very hot gusty NW lies. Was 30 degrees after sunset! That was very hot! Temperature cooled down this morning at 12 degrees which is coolest since September.

Looks like another severe storms outbreak for Northern NSW and SEQLD again from Wednesday. Temperatures would certainly kick into 30's again for most of areas with high dewpoints into low to mid 20's. A little bit early at this stage.

I am very very jealous!!

[Supercell Hunters]

LOL sorry!! ^^^

Looking good for stormies today across the region. Nice cells firing up across our ranges especially on far west and northwest. However these storms can be severe for flash flooding and damaging wind gusts. Currently its 28.4/22.1 feels like 31.3 here atm which is breaking up the cap simply and create good generation of thunderstorms to fire up.

Bring it on today and hopefully more tomorrow!

[Supercell Hunters]

Oh jeeze the rains this morning didn't let the temperature down! Was min of 23 degrees. Now its 25.8/24.4 feels like 29.7!!! So sickening hot and humid morning. Its overcast and it still wanted to get very hot and muggy. Nice storms at Tenterfield at the moment but expecting to see more during afternoon. Possibly severe with rain and wind. Not sure about hail coz its tooo moisty.

[Supercell Hunters]

Ok guys this storm was weird. It have wind direction from the northwest then turned several times from the southwest. It had some bursts of strong gusts, estimated around 70km/hr with good heavy localized rainfalls. Scored a nice 12mm out of this one. Temperature finally dropped off the mark from last night min temperature.

Pictures aren't that spectacular from 20th of this month. Very much ending to November storms now. Next will be Wednesday, the first storm day for December. Still very warm to hot humid days though.

Forecast for Saturday evening

Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms. Moderate to fresh west to southwest change developing.

Forecast for Sunday

Fine, mostly sunny. Light to moderate west to southwest winds, and coastal seabreezes.

Lismore: Fine, mostly sunny. Min: 18 Max: 29

Cape Byron: Fine, mostly sunny. Min: 19 Max: 25

Grafton: Fine, mostly sunny. Min: 17 Max: 29

Forecast for Monday

Fine. Mostly sunny. Light to moderate northeast winds.

Lismore: Fine. Mostly sunny. Min: 15 Max: 31

Forecast for Tuesday

Fine. Northwest to northeast winds.

Lismore: Fine. Min: 15 Max: 32

Forecast for Wednesday

Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Northwest to northeast winds.

Lismore: Chance afternoon shower/thunderstorm. Min: 19 Max: 33

[Supercell Hunters]

Forecast for Tuesday

Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Light to moderate northwest winds tending moderate to fresh northeast in the afternoon.

Lismore: Mostly fine. Min: 16 Max: 32

Cape Byron: Mostly fine. Min: 18 Max: 25

Grafton: Mostly fine. Min: 16 Max: 33

Forecast for Wednesday

Isolated afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Light to moderate northwest to northeast winds, fresh along the coast.

Lismore: Chance afternoon shower/thunderstorm. Min: 19 Max: 33

Forecast for Thursday

Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Southeast to northeast winds.

Lismore: Chance shower or thunderstorm. Min: 19 Max: 31

Forecast for Friday

Isolated showers. North to northwest winds.

Lismore: Chance of a shower. Min: 19 Max: 32

For tomorrow

Shear looking great enough for them to move!

Instability looking okish on Thursday and Friday to me but shear is best key.

[Supercell Hunters]

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the

NORTHERN RIVERS and parts of the

MID NORTH COAST and

NORTHERN TABLELANDS Forecast Districts.

Issued at 2:35 pm Wednesday, 3 December 2008.

Severe thunderstorms may produce large hailstones and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Lismore, Grafton, Tenterfield, Kyogle, Yamba and Maclean.

Those cells in west going so crazy. Fast developing ones straight to be severe. So unbelievable set up!

[Supercell Hunters]

Wednesday 3rd December 2008 Violent storms produce lightning galore

It was a very hot and humid day with nice north to northeast winds tending to seabreezes early in afternoon. First storms produced in southwest of Tenterfield about 2pm. Temperatures and humidity was high most of day maxed out 32/23 feels like 36. Thunderstorms became severe about 3pm and firing up through Grafton and Yamba areas dropped out 2cm hailstones and generally mild lightning storms.

After 4pm, thunderstorms in our southwest became more severe and producing lightning galore. Most strikes up twice a second with maximum of 6 strikes at once! So once time we went to river at Ramada Hotel with Dylan watched the storms to come through. I took the first photo of lightning next to Ramada. Once new towers and RFB’s forming closer to us now produce some freaky lightning bolts! At this period of time it was hardest to take photos of them.

Once the storms coming through us, had moderate to heavy rainfalls with good solid lightning show. Then new cell comes after with lightning galore as the beast of the day! This cell was insane and most severe of the day. I recall this was a supercell. It produced hail and damaging wind gusts in Lismore and Bangalow areas. We had a super excellent vantage point seeing lightning strikes on backend of this large dangerous thunderstorm.

We had over 7mm of rain with max wind gust of 70km/hr from northwest from the large thunderstorm in the end.

[Supercell Hunters]

Jealously again hehe

News article on Wednesday's violent storms

http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2008/...rm-hits-region/

More severe storms again today. Some chances are likely to produce one or few violent supercells due to strong uppers and plenty moisture in lowers.

[Supercell Hunters]

Insane storms continued over night and this morning. Had over 44mm and still counting as another storm coming in. It fairly high based which is good for cgs!!!! Jeeze this cells are insanely heavy!!!! Bring it on some more!!! One of them having some good squalls like 35-40knots which is a little freaky!

[Things]

Nice pics man!

Up here in Cairns we have had a few large storms pass over, but since I am relatively close to the oceans, the big ones seem to be dodging us. Townsville got a shocker storm I believe at around 6am on the 7th, ALOT of rain!

Keep em coming!

[Supercell Hunters]

Hey yea i heard about that. I might go to JCU Townsville next Feb so yea hehe.

Ballina had wild storms last night with good cgs galore, 33mm of rain. Got hit by twice within an hour!!! Its freaky awesome!

This arvo Ballina has continued on their domination of severe storms. Nice lightning and plenty of rain! Up to 20mm now.

[Supercell Hunters]

Hot dry gusty NW lies here today with max of 31 and min of 23. Storms would be bak later this week.

[Supercell Hunters]

Had nasty monsoonal like squally thunderstorm on Thursday. Scored 80km/hr gusts and over 10mm of rain in short time. Large hail reported and lightning strikes reported. Saw some close flangs!!!! Gust front was so eerie and creepy scary.

Monsoonal conditions has started in northern country. Dumping alot of rain and squalls up to 140km/hr. There was a cyclone in northwest but expecting to be redevelop after hitting the land as comes back into the water.

Another one but two cyclones may form during xmas/new year period. This helps from the monsoonal trough. La nina has deepen.

[Somerset Squall]

Monsoonal conditions has started in northern country. Dumping alot of rain and squalls up to 140km/hr. There was a cyclone in northwest but expecting to be redevelop after hitting the land as comes back into the water.

Another one but two cyclones may form during xmas/new year period. This helps from the monsoonal trough. La nina has deepen.

Yes, that's TC Billy. COuld get very strong near NW Australia in the xmas week.

Very monsoonal across the northern territories I agree. There's an interesting tropical low in the Gulf of Carpentaria which has slowly been organsing, may see a cyclone develop as it pushes across the top end next week.

[Supercell Hunters]

Yea he redeveloped into Cat 1 cyclone now and heading into 30 degrees warm waters! That gulfie low now became a landphoon monsoonal low now and theres another low formed near the Cape York which have greater potential for form a tropical cyclone.

Very mild conditions today with max of 25 degrees. Showers and storms from xmas eve onwards now.

[Supercell Hunters]

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES, FLASH FLOODING and DAMAGING WIND

For people in parts of the

NORTHERN RIVERS,

MID NORTH COAST and

NORTHERN TABLELANDS Forecast Districts.

Issued at 1:45 pm Wednesday, 24 December 2008.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce large hailstones, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and damaging winds in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Grafton, Evans Head, Yamba, Maclean, Wooli and Glenreagh.

Nice cells firing up very good and healthy on radar. Skies and conditions are very perfect for severe storms!! Bring it on!

[Supercell Hunters]

Wednesday 24th December 2008 Violent supercells produce large hail, damaging wind gusts and flash flooding and possible tornado.

Since the day wasn’t fair for potentially severe storms after the stalling of southerly change about midday just around Grafton. Then severe thunderstorms formed on Dorrigo Plateau and helped the southerly change to ride with it to make them more severe. Few cells became very dangerous including Kyogle twice, Lismore and here.

Around 4pm I went down to river watched massive supercell filling the sky green and brown. Very dangerous low based RFB cloud was on highway somewhere between Ballina and Wardell and I spotted a short lived tornado. Then it quickly dies out as other convergence disturbing the convection and it became less severe for us.

Lismore and Kyogle had the most action as new development area became severe. Hail, wind and rain reported usually out of these thunderstorms. Today action was one of the most severe since last month when we had most rain and squalls.

[Somerset Squall]

Nice images, looks like fun! Can't wait for a good storm again!

[Supercell Hunters]

Haha thanks. These people on this forums should pay more attention in here. Certainly we having large number of supercells reported so far in 3 months of this season here in world.

Nice hot, humid, moisty partly to cloudy days with some scattering severe storms with heavy rain and squalls. Possible cyclone gonna form in Gulf then will recurve towards the eastern coast reforming as a cyclone. This will drag the monsoonal trough very far south as expected!

[Supercell Hunters]

Six homes destroyed as wild storm hits Kyogle area

AT LEAST six families were homeless yesterday after wild winds and hailstones the size of 20-cent pieces ripped into walls and tore off roofs from houses near Kyogle on Christmas Eve.

The storm hit between Kyogle and Wiangaree about 4pm.

Collins Creek bore the brunt of the severe storm that lasted about 30 minutes.

There were no injuries.

Witnesses told The Northern Star the wind was circular, like a tornado, and that the clouds were a vibrant blue.

“It was just like a movie. It was terrifying,” said young mother of three, Lesley McQueen, who lost her home.

The SES responded to 29 emergency calls as trees collapsed on sheds and roads.

The road to Collins Creek was yesterday strewn with twisted pieces of corrugated iron and large trees snapped like matchsticks.

About 60 homes were still without power yesterday, despite Country Energy working round the clock to restore electricity to about 300 families.

“We would love to have power back on for everybody tonight (last night), but the way things are going I can’t guarantee it because of the amount of poles and conductors that are down,” North Coast field operations manager Phillip Green said.

“It’s only in a 5km circle, but everything in that area is damaged.”

Flying metal sheets brought down wires.

Source: http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2008/...ts-kyogle-area/

Kyogle councillor’s home has roof ripped off

IT WAS supposed to be the classic family Christmas for Kyogle councillor Robert Leadbeatter – but the Christmas Eve storm at Collins Creek changed all that.

His two daughters, their husbands and five children were on their way from Brisbane when the storm hit, damaging one of their cars.

They arrived to find Mr Leadbeatter and his wife mopping up the water in their home.

The front of the house took the full force of the storm, which peeled back the roof like a can opener, drenching the contents, including presents.

It wasn’t long before the sons-in-law were at work repairing the roof.

Still, the young grandchildren needed some-where dry to sleep.

After asking for a room at a Kyogle hotel, its owner offered the family a nearby house he had just purchased – with enough space for a Christmas barbecue.

Source: http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2008/...as-roof-ripped/

They never get stop having too much severe storms. Even this is much needed proof of Northern Rivers is the place in Australia you see the most severe storms such as supercells and tornadoes.

BTW theres a tornado on 3rd picture of my latest report above.