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Severe Weather Discussion => General Weather - all topics not current severe weather. => Topic started by: Jimmy Deguara on 21 June 2008, 02:08:57 PM

Title: Gladstone hailstorm 9th December 2003
Post by: Jimmy Deguara on 21 June 2008, 02:08:57 PM

I recall this day and we were on tour knowing that we could not have made the treck all the way up that way and then down to Sydney. But it is good to see that there is footage of the storm by someone who lived in the area:

http://dgar.blogspot.com/2008/03/old-hail-footage.html

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Title: Re: Gladstone hailstorm 9th December 2003
Post by: Michael Bath on 21 June 2008, 03:13:15 PM

Some big hailstones in that lot. I don't recall that event as I was in the middle of the cancer crap at the time, but here's the QLD BoM summary - massive rainfalls then big hail - what a day !

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On the 9th thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall during the early morning between Gladstone and Burnett Heads, with several falls of 200-300mm recorded. A severe hailstorm struck Gladstone during the late afternoon, with hailstones larger than cricket balls reported by several sources. Part of the roof of the Kin Kora Shopping Centre collapsed and the centre evacuated, 120 homes were damaged and car yards were also seriously affected. Damage was estimated at 1.5 to 2 million dollars. Elsewhere golf ball sized hail was reported from the Atherton area in the North Tropical Coast and Tablelands district during the afternoon, while wind gusts from storms unroofed a house in the Charters Towers area during the evening.