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Severe Weather Discussion => Australian Severe Storms, Weather Events and Storm Chasing => Topic started by: Michael Bath on 05 April 2011, 03:04:56 AM
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An upper trough kicked off a few severe storms over NE NSW on Saturday 2 April 2011. One storm developed west of Kempsey about 1pm then tracked north passing between Casino and Lismore at 7.30pm and continued into SE Queensland into late evening. I wasn't able to chase but got these shots beside the Richmond River in Ballina. The sunset with the trawlers heading out to sea was nice too.
(http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2011/0402mb09.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2011/0402mb10.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2011/0402mb11.jpg)
There was one amazing bolt that reminded me of this one (http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2008/0912mb49.jpg) from a few years ago, then just in-cloud lightning and some weak anvil crawler stuff - which was a shame.
(http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2011/0402mb12.jpg)
Other storms developed along the coast in the S-SE change. These were taken of the cloud tops from home around 11pm.
(http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2011/0402mb19.jpg)
(http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2011/0402mb22.jpg)
All photos taken on 2 April 2011 (http://australiasevereweather.com/photo/index.php?twg_album=089___2011%2F273___02+april+2011+mb)
128km Radar Loop for Grafton, 02:00 02/04/2011 to 13:00 02/04/2011 UTC
(http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radar-thumb/IDR283/2011-04-02-02/2011-04-02-13/300.s.png) (http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radar-loop/IDR283-grafton/2011-04-02-02/2011-04-02-13)