Australia Severe Weather Season 2008/9

[Things]

Wow, a tornado?!?!

Crazy man, very nice pics! Some weird lookin clouds in the last report

Theres some lightning flashin around the skies as I type this, but the storms are dying down once they leave the ocean.

Looks like Sydney got smashed again today

[Supercell Hunters]

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES, FLASH FLOODING and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the MID NORTH COAST, HUNTER, NORTHERN TABLELANDS, NORTH WEST SLOPES, NORTH WEST PLAINS and parts of the NORTHERN RIVERS, METROPOLITAN, CENTRAL TABLELANDS, CENTRAL WEST SLOPES, CENTRAL WEST PLAINS and UPPER WESTERN Forecast Districts.

Issued at 1:09 pm Monday, 29 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, Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie, Taree, Newcastle, Gosford, Armidale, Tamworth, Gunnedah, Moree, Narrabri and Walgett.

Jeeze nasty cells down south moving northwards. Might be ripper afternoon here in Lismore. Currently 32/23 feels like 37! Phew so muggy and extremely hot one.

Just bought Panasonic SDL SW20 today! Its awesome video camera that is useful for all weather conditions such as waterproof, dustproof, windproof and shockproof!

Oh man look at those HUGE nasty supercells on Newcastle and Grafton radars!

[Supercell Hunters]

Hello guys. I had 270mb of videos and photos of insane storm smashed North Lismore. Theres a video clip of 1minute of very nonstop thunder and lightning. Frequently about every half seconds. At start of the storm we were under nasty tornadic green and blue clouds (low clouds) where winds and rain started from.

During the storm at backend where sunlight comes through, winds and rain were the strongest. Some gusts up to 90km/hr!! Mircobursts sway trees by the side like going to do a cyclone! Rainfalls should be between 30-50mm.

Video and photo files should be uploaded on internet tomorrow. They are already formatted and uploaded on the pc.

Cheers Matt

[Thundersquall]

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.

Love this amazing photo with the setting Sun highlighting the storm clouds.

[Supercell Hunters]

Thanks Mate.

[Supercell Hunters]

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES, FLASH FLOODING and DAMAGING WIND

For people in the

NORTHERN RIVERS and parts of the

MID NORTH COAST Forecast Districts.

Issued at 2:48 pm Tuesday, 30 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 Lismore, Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Woolgoolga, Sawtell and Dorrigo.

Oh man its again! Nice strong looking updrafts in southwest, first cell to Evans Head and another one behind it.

[Supercell Hunters]

Casino cell anvil is over here now, starting to thunder now, nasty pulsie thick crispy RFBs and towers around it! Had first one on edge.....................story will be revealed soon because another HP supercell coming from Casino.

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

for LARGE HAILSTONES, FLASH FLOODING and DAMAGING WIND

For people in parts of the

NORTHERN RIVERS Forecast District.

Issued at 3:59 pm Tuesday, 30 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 Lismore, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Ballina, Casino, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby and Kyogle.

Severe thunderstorms are no longer occurring in the MID NORTH COAST district and the warning for this district is CANCELLED.

4 to 5 cm hailstones have been reported from a thunderstorm near Lismore, moving towards the Byron Bay and Mullumbimby area.

[Supercell Hunters]

Happy New year every1!

Today going for USA setup supercells again as the moisture and instability to increase about in couple of hours. Then watch they explode in nuke!!!! Li down to -5 to -9 and CAPE around 2500 to 4000. I will be back in Ballina this afternoon and hopefully to see good storm there!

[Supercell Hunters]

CAP breaking now, convection starting!!!!!! So hot and humid here now. Nice towers in west. Here we go nukies!

temperature

31.9°C

rising

dew point

25.7°C

rising

relative humidity

70%

feels like

40.1°C

[Cookie]

thats far to hot for my likeing I suppose you get used to it?

[Supercell Hunters]

Haha yea its tropicalwise here in subtropical climate lol.

Boring weather since last report. Had wild late severe storm on 3rd. Just lightning show, thundersqualls up to 105km/hr gusts, small hail and good rain.

[gobbyash]

Hi Mat

Glad to see you're still 'into' your weather..Cheers

gobbyash

[Supercell Hunters]

Haha thanks mate, i remembered ya for yeears ago!

EC having TC coming pounding down here !!!!!!!!!

[Things]

Uhh ohh, i'm in the firing line for "cyclone Charlotte" (If it actually comes to be a cyclone, its a tropical low as of this moment), as of 4pm EST of the 10th, its so far only classed as less than a category one, though it's been said that it should become a cyclone tommorow/Sunday some time.

BoM has said centre winds are around 45km/h, which isn't all that powerful, but it will be interesting to see what it does over the next few days.

[Supercell Hunters]

Damn monsoon stealing our weather haha. Storms forecasted on Friday in monsoonal break. Great timing lol.

[bazookabob]

Uhh ohh, i'm in the firing line for "cyclone Charlotte" (If it actually comes to be a cyclone, its a tropical low as of this moment), as of 4pm EST of the 10th, its so far only classed as less than a category one, though it's been said that it should become a cyclone tommorow/Sunday some time.

BoM has said centre winds are around 45km/h, which isn't all that powerful, but it will be interesting to see what it does over the next few days.

You lucky bugger living in Cairns! I love it there... Although I imagine you're a bit wet today- for everyone who doesn't know, here are the 24hr rainfall totals for Cairns the past few days (24hr period upto 9am on date indicated);

Jan 10th- 70.2mm

Jan 11th- 49.2mm

Jan 12th- 278.0mm

Jan 12th (9am-11.59pm)- 127.4mm

Incredible rainfall totals really and no suprise even this well-prepared part of the world is having flooding problems. Incidentally the total rainfall this year so far in Cairns is 551.2mm!

[Supercell Hunters]

If i get into uni i be in Townsville very soon in first week of Feb for 3 years. Sighs yea monsoonal lol.

[Supercell Hunters]

I got accepted to University of New England at Armidale doing for Bs of Science! Thanks to Qtac for my acceptance! Here my future! I be leaving to Armidale in first to second week of February. Currently waiting for further round see if JCU accepts me on 5th of Feb.

[Supercell Hunters]

Cooler day with max of 25 degrees. Alot of showery periods and fresh winds. Nice day though.

[Supercell Hunters]

Same weather here today. Supercells would be gone for season now. Soon i'm heading to Armidale with hailstorms, snow, sleet, england like weather and that etc.

[Supercell Hunters]

World weather turned up side down lately. Monsoonal bursts giving us some squally rains and heavy bursts. But we are 28 degrees south! Temperatures and dewpoints are extremely high! Yesterday was 34/24! Now its 32/25! So extremely hottest and humid!

GFS gonna give us a cyclone for whatever from monsoon from end of this new week!

[Supercell Hunters]

Had 15mm out of first storm. Just lovely rain but humidity isnt letting up! More storms coming from Ballina but im going back there this afternoon hehe! Bring it some more heavy rain!

STW is out for flash flooding for NR and large hailstones/damaging winds for NT and Western Slopes and Plains.