From: "Ben Quinn" To: Subject: aus-wx: SE QLD Storms Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:14:41 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Everyone, Some very intense storms developed in SE QLD today, and Jason Rainforest and myself caught up with some of these - a storm that moved up from the border ranges, eventually dissipating near Ipswich, was quite spectacular! A picture taken by Jason Rainforest : http://bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/03-11-200010.html And the rest of his pictures can be found here http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/products/reports/2000/november/3/index.html The first 4 were taken from between Cunninghams Gap and Warwick, and the rest between Boonah and Ispwich More pictures and a full report will be up in a few days +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 05:24:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mario Paul Subject: aus-wx: hail in the hunter To: weather Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com hi all. I was talking to jimmy deguara not long ago and he said it was hailing in Willow Tree for about 15 to 20 min this afternoon. Hail size was about 2cm. He is staying in Tamworth tonight, so tomorrow (sat)he will be in a great position to chase in the target area of north nsw. As for the sydney tornado.....I managed to take several pics of what looked like definite funnel clouds. Will develop my film tomorrow and hope it comes out.Lets hope sydney fires up again tomorrow! Mario Orazem __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Grant Searle" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Sydney Tornadic Supercell Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:36:44 +1100 Organization: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Hi all
 
I was watching the same event that Matt Smith saw from my work location at Granville (just west of the Bold Street bridge).  I had an excellent view of it from the second storey of our new office. I watched it for probably 15 minutes from 4.20pm (0520UTC) and estimated that it was 2-3km away to the west ie South Wentworthville and Greystanes.  At this time also a shelf cloud to the south was moving north-eastwards
 
This wall cloud descended out of  a low-level CB base (which I estimated was at 1500-1600 feet) on the NW flank of the storm system (which I understand is the correct position) and had itself a base of about 150-200 feet. I was amazed as I have never seen anything like this before and although it did not develop into the conventional shape in the end, it was clear that there was some sort of  of clockwise rotation of the NE winds feeding into the wall cloud maybe a kilometre across.  You could see dust being stirred up under the wall cloud and being lifted up. As well as some sort of rotation I could see within the wall cloud  area there were thin wisps of cloud being lifted up to about 500 feet and then down again (like the wake of a plane). 
 
This had been preceeded by another wall cloud about 10 minutes earlier maybe a kilometre or two to the north with showed signs of thin wispy cloud being lifted up from about 500 feet and also signs of dust and dirt being stirred upwards. However this northerly member became less obvious by 4.30pm.  We had about 10mm size hail from about 4.20-4.25pm then torrential rain for about 10 minutes before a little more hail. During this time the wind was either fresh easterly or north-easterly
 
Unfortunately I did not have any camera, so I am looking forwarded to see any pics Matt has taken
 
 
 
Grant Searle
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 5:22 PM
Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Tornadic Supercell

Hey!!!!
 
 
Just a quick report in to confirm that this storm has dropped a tornado of some description and it has apparently gone accross the suburbs of Merrylands, Pendle Hill and Wenworthville area. Matt Smith has possibly bagged the tornado on film.  I chased up to Liverpool where there was obvious rotation, and massive shelf cloud. I recieved 20c hail at Mt Pritchyard and gusty whirly winds further on towards Fairfield as the storm moved over.
Looking west and there are more towers going up to my WSW. Will keep you posted. Got plenty of pics too!
 
dann
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 From: jannah at eisa.net.au X-Sender: jannah at mail.eisa.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:01:21 +1100 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: RE: aus-wx: Sydney storm!!! Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Is this the way you react to people disasters! "You hope tommorrow is just AS GOOD"? Do you guys believe you are normal?? At 04:35 pm 03/11/2000 +1100, you wrote: >Hi SG. >Yes, it is definitely GOING OFF!!! I have already seen a wall cloud and >funnel drop down to the west (I am in Strathfield). >Radar is pegged off the scale, I am so excited!!! > >More reports to come from Matt Smith and Max King, as well as myself. >I'm too excited to type :) > >> ---------- >> From: S G[SMTP:thunderday191 at hotmail.com] >> Sent: Saturday, 4 November 2000 8:53 >> To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >> Subject: aus-wx: Sydney storm!!! >> >> Wow!!! >> >> What a massive storm right near Sydney with a rainfall rate of 100mm/hr!!! >> >> I'm not in Sydney of course but it must be a thriller storm. Can't wait >> to >> hear reports. A pitty Adelaide hasn't had a decent storm since April but >> I >> think the Sydneysiders deserve some interesting weather more than we do. >I am just about to leave work and have decided to use the campus blow-up >boat, 'cause ladies and gents it is, for a kinder word, weeing down rats and >pigs..... The fireworks are not very exciting though. > >Still, I will run up to level 8 of my building (tallest point on campus and >probably the entire North Ryde/Marsfield area) and search for the reported >tornado... Last time I went up to level 8 and got to the window there was >one almighty flash/smack/bang and all the lights went unlighting like. Woke >not only myself, but most of my bladder too! > >Happy chasing for you lucky chasers. (Hey Paul, you were right about today. >YAY! :-) Hoping tommorrow is just as good.) > >Avo Ohanian >IS Support >Macquarie University > > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Andrew Godsman" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: NSW Severe Storm Advice Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 08:06:26 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Hi Dann and Matt,
 
I have saved Sydney Local Loops for the period 2:30pm to around 4:30pm. In this time the Sydney tornadic storm travels from around Bowral to near Horsnby. If you or others want the gifs sent for reports, please email me off-list before later this afternoon as going for a computer upgrade and will be off-line until late Sunday.
 
Andrew Godsman
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: aus-wx: NSW Severe Storm Advice

I can see a massive updrafts propagating to my NE from here (Cranebrook, inbetween richmond and penrith). Thunder is rumbling away alomst constantly now. There is heaps of maritime cu about so its difficult to get the size of this thing. Matt Smith is out and about on 0407 069693.
 
I will be heading out shortly aswell. I am on 0402 091479
 
dann
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: aus-wx: NSW Severe Storm Advice

TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE
BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY
NEW SOUTH WALES REGIONAL OFFICE
Issued at 1158 on Friday the 3rd of November 2000

This advice affects people in the following weather districts:

Central Tablelands, Hunter, Illawarra


Thunderstorms are forecast within the advice area this afternoon. Some of
these are expected to be severe bringing large hailstones and very heavy
rainfall.


The STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE advises that as storms approach people should:
  * put vehicles under cover
  * move indoors away from windows

During and after the storm people should:
  * beware of fallen trees and power lines
  * keep away from creeks and drains as you may be swept away

 
The RTA recommends motorists switch their lights & wipers on & slow down in
the wet.

If your house is damaged contact the State Emergency Service on 132 500 for
emergency assistance. Do not use the telephone during the storm.

TV CRAWL: Severe Thunderstorm Advice current for Central Tablelands, Hunter
and Illawarra.

NOT FOR BROADCAST: This Advice message is valid until 6pm. The Bureau and
SES would appreciate it being broadcast regularly until this time.
 X-Sender: mbath at pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:02:03 +1100 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Michael Bath Subject: aus-wx: Sydney 3/11/2000 radar Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, I have uploaded some radar for Sydney leading up to, during and after the tornado which was at around 0510z to 0520z. Timestamps on the radar images are all UTC, Sydney local time is UTC+11. There is the local scale (syd256) and fine scale (syd128). I have not animated it - just put all the images I had saved and Netscape cached while I was out: http://australiasevereweather.com/temp/sydney20001103/ Jimmy is heading from Tamworth to the NW Slopes & Plains 0408 020 468 regards, Michael ============================================================= Michael Bath mailto:mbath at ozemail.com.au McLeans Ridges http://australiasevereweather.com/ NE NSW Australia http://www.lightningphotography.com/ ASWA Secretary http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ ============================================================= +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 08:35:07 +1000 From: Anthony Cornelius X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: Australian Weather Mailing List Subject: aus-wx: Syd Doppler Loop & Severe SE QLD TS Y'Day Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, I'm not sure if the radar itself is Doppler, but the winds definately are, I've uploaded the loop at: http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/anthony/SydDop.gif Was a great day yesterday! Scored a nice corkscrew updraft, another funnel, and a beautiful storm that Ben has posted some pics of, on the WNW edge, there may have been a meso & WC under there, but while I was very close, I had some trees in the way!!! So it's difficult to tell. It had very strong inflow, around 20kn where I was, but mum later phoned as this storm passed over the edge of the farm. She described what was gale force inflow before the storm arrived!!! (Ie, the inflow was breaking small branches off trees), followed then by horizontal rain and hail with winds in the opposite direction as the storm moved over. She didn't have much of a look, but she said that there were numerous large branches down, and the set of table and chairs went flying about 20m or so. There were lots of CG's from the storm, many pulsing several times! Many had loud booming thunder. Will get a report & pics up soon, but more chasing required for today! -- Anthony Cornelius Queensland Coordinator of the Australian Severe Weather Association (ASWA) (07) 3390 4812 14 Kinsella St Belmont, Brisbane QLD, 4153 Please report severe thunderstorms on our Queensland severe thunderstorm reporting line on (07) 3390 4218 or by going to our homepage at http://www.severeweather.asn.au +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [139.134.23.67] From: "Shaun Whelan" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: Re: aus-wx: Nowra. Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:40:58 EST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Nov 2000 22:40:59.0142 (UTC) FILETIME=[22E2BA60:01C045E7] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hello all, Shaun from Nowra in a very p....d off mood. Yes we got a nasty storm (actually a couple) down here yesterday. Hail at Bomaderry through to Terara and Worrigee (where I live),massive Cb,scud being drawn up at about 30 to 45 degrees, possible rotation, massive electrical storm at around 9pm etc.,et al, so on and so forth. Where was I you ask? At work on duty.Bugger. Now that I'm at home ready to go with 2 cameras and a VCR, will we get anything? Ask Murphy. Shaun Nowra buggerbuggerbugger >From: Andrew Puddifer >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >To: aussie-weather at world.std.com >Subject: aus-wx: Nowra. >Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:42:23 +1100 > > Hi all, > > Is there anyone down Nowra way on the list? There is a very >nasty storm down there on radar, I wouldn't want to be too close >to it! > > Regards, Andrew. > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Anthony Spierings" To: "dencot" Cc: Subject: Not read: aus-wx: Pictures of Sydney Storm? Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:19:53 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Dear dencot, Must you insist on having read notification set to on for email messages posted to a list digest? Regards, Anthony Spierings as029 at bigpond.net.au ============== Your message To: Aussie Weather Mail-Post Subject: aus-wx: Pictures of Sydney Storm? Sent: 3/11/2000 4:01 PM was deleted without being read on 3/11/2000 8:47 PM. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: NinnesM at franklins.com.au To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Supercell & Tornado, brief chase account. Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:07:07 +1100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Everyone I see there is alot of excitment from alot of people on the list, except that person just before that asked "if we are normal" for wanting storms! of course we are! people who dont want them are not normal :P but im not going into that debate.If you dont like the weather, why are you on the list? Ok my computer is buggered and i have to fork out over a grand (considerable chunk of my savings) to buy a new one.... im using Malcolm's computer at the moment to send this email. If anyone out there wants to send me some money for a new one, feel free. well what a day... To me, the events leading up to the tornado were very interesting. I went to a net cafe and checked the models/radar at 11ish am cause my computer is dead, saw storms developing on the ranges in the pink and red, headed out, saw some nice CG's from a storm just west of penrith that moved NE and decayed. I was at Penrith Uni and Matt Pearce called me saying he could see a massive storm to the S/SW. I couldnt see it because mid level junk was in the way. 10 minutes later it cleared and i could see a MASSIVE storm down towards Bowral. Fantastic backsheared anvil, HUGE updraughts pushing up on the NW flank... people were messaging me saying there was an STW out and large hail had been reported somewhere. I arrivd at Camden on a small hill and watched a huge wallcloud under a fresh updraught, CG's pulsing 5-7 times every 15-20 seconds, and it was by far the blackest/darkest/scariest looking precip area i have ever seen. It was approaching slowly so i retreated back towards Bringelly road. I was getting a tad confused by reports of which direction the storm was moving,but daniel weatherhead was in liverpool somewhere getting 20c piece sized hail ! i hadnt seen hail over 2cm so i wanted to head there and see what i could find. Someone rang me, i think it was andrew from wollongong, and said there was a nice area of red/pink between bankstown and the city. I decided to go up Mamre Road, and back onto the M4 heading eastbound. I thought i would have missed the storm and it would have cleared north by the time i got around Parramatta. How wrong i was. A few KM before Parra, the rain got VERY VERY heavy. I was not expecting this going by the radar report earlier. Cars had slowed to a crawl and people had parked under overpasses etc. I continued on at 40km/h and then all of a sudden it stopped raining. From absolutly PISSING down, to NOTHING. On the video camera, i recorded all this and as soon as that happened i said to myself "I'm not liking this" or "I dont like this" From what i can gather i had entered the region of the hook echo, when it becomes rain wrapped the yanks call it the "bears cage". Anyway, with the rain stopping, just up ahead i saw a massive lowering, scud's rapidly being sucked up into it, the rotation bands in the cloud above the lowering was mezmorizing, i had only seen photos of this type of stuff on the net ! The lowering looked like it was almost on the ground (i couldnt see for sure) with rapid motion. I pulled over on the M4 and hopped out and got a photo or 2, then drove closer as it passed over the road a km or 2 ahead of me where it dissipated. I must stress i did not see any debri under the base, it all happened so fast and was over within 30 seconds or so. Try driving, stopping, taking a photo or 2, and videoing it all in the space of 30 seconds, you dont have time to think hehe. ANYWAY the southern side of the hook was *JUST* to my south with a wall of hail and rain about to engulf me, i kissed the view of the meso and wall cloud goodbye as the rain hit and everyone pulled over and stopped. Hail just over 2cm mixed with rain hit and continued for about 5-10 minutes, Daniel weatherhead had called me saying he had heard reports on ABC radio of people witnessing funnel clouds/rotation/debri being sucked up onto the air etc over the greystanes/wentworthville area. Now for my little dig at the Bureau. ABC radio had people calling in with there experiences during the storm, with a number of accounts of people seeing funnels and rotation and debri being lifted up in the air. The presenter spoke live to a BoM person,and when asked about tornadoes, he downplayed it something shocking. along the lines of "we do get tornadoes in australia but they are rare, and what people are seeing is more likely a downburst" ! I have this convo recorded on the video camera. The thing is, the BoM have doppler, radar, a supercell tracking NE across sydney... i just dont get it. Sure they have a warning out for "destructive winds" but when there is CLEAR EVIDENCE of a supercell with a hook echo, i find it unbelievable there was not a torando warning issued. IF this had been ANY stronger, there would have been a MAJOR catastrophe across sydney with many people dead and injured. But if that had happened i guess the BoM would downplay it and say to the media it was a "freak event". Anyway, thats about it. I have photos and video, which wont be online for a while until i get a computer... I also met up with Max king who was at wentworthville and could see debri being sucked up into the air, confirming the tornado. We did a damage assesment and found clear evidence of convergence where the tornado touched down. Ok here's hoping today fires as well, if anyone wants to give updates feel free. I will be out and about, and a MASSIVE thanks to everyone who messaged/called me. The info was very valuable and welcomed. (andrew from wollongong, dave carol from bathurst, Mr Weatherhead, Dr Pearce, list goes on and on) (thanks to Mal as well for letting me take over his computer for an hour or 2:) (Dann can you update the website recent events please, i cant) Matt Smith http://www.sydneystormchasers.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [203.54.88.69] From: "S G" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Get a grip jannah!!! Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:18:22 CST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2000 00:48:22.0563 (UTC) FILETIME=[EEB83730:01C045F8] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Someone always has to wreck something good. We live in nature therefore we must accept everything mother nature throws at us. I get excited when ever the weather turns nasty because it teaches stupid humans that we can't have everything our own way!!! We are so selfish to just expect everything to go well al the time. By the way I don't think anyone is enjoying the fact that people's houses may be damaged or anything like that. We are trying to enjoy the wonder of weather. I'm saying this and I wasn't even in Sydney but it is the same anywhere. And I also get sick of hearing people say, "oh my god how could this huge tropical cyclone hit us" when they live in the tropics and know that they are prone to tropical cyclones, that really annoys me. It's the same with tornadoes in the U.S. where people live in 'tornado alley' but they still don't know why a tornadoe hits there house. So I really don't understand why you jannah are on this list do you just enjoy sunshine or little showers now and then or something? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Sender: mbath at pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:51:17 +1100 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Michael Bath Subject: aus-wx: CHASE - NE NSW Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi All, 11.50am I'm heading out on chase - may meet up with Jimmy later who was in Barraba at 11.30am Storm has just shot up to my far NW - near Warwick in QLD Plenty of congestus all along the tablelands, and storms SW of Grafton. My mobile is 0412 145 710 regards, Michael ============================================================= Michael Bath mailto:mbath at ozemail.com.au McLeans Ridges http://australiasevereweather.com/ NE NSW Australia http://www.lightningphotography.com/ ASWA Secretary http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ ============================================================= +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Michael Thompson" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Get a grip jannah!!! Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:02:47 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Pretty good summary SG, for me severe storms in city environs is a plain pain in the neck. There isn't a storm chaser on this list that likes chasing through city streets, we much prefer them out in the open countryside away from harm. Michael > Someone always has to wreck something good. > > We live in nature therefore we must accept everything mother nature throws > at us. I get excited when ever the weather turns nasty because it teaches > stupid humans that we can't have everything our own way!!! We are so > selfish to just expect everything to go well al the time. By the way I > don't think anyone is enjoying the fact that people's houses may be damaged > or anything like that. We are trying to enjoy the wonder of weather. I'm > saying this and I wasn't even in Sydney but it is the same anywhere. And I > also get sick of hearing people say, "oh my god how could this huge tropical > cyclone hit us" when they live in the tropics and know that they are prone > to tropical cyclones, that really annoys me. It's the same with tornadoes > in the U.S. where people live in 'tornado alley' but they still don't know > why a tornadoe hits there house. > > So I really don't understand why you jannah are on this list do you just > enjoy sunshine or little showers now and then or something? > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Michael Thompson" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Nowra. & SE WINDS boo.. hiss... Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:13:31 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi Shaun You may have add another b....r to that. That horrible SE wind ( remember that SE stands for Storm Eradicator ) set in very early this morning along the Illawarra coast. I would say that the Hunter now is the southern most target area, even then I have my doubts. The models indicate that the winds may veer back at least easterly tomorrow and the trough redeepen. I hooked onto that lightning from the Nowra storm last night, some very close CG's as I drove through Gerringong, including one off the side in a paddock about 100m, it was one of those bolts that 'sizzles' if you know what I mean, you see it and its takes 2-3 seconds to fade into beads. Michael > Hello all, Shaun from Nowra in a very p....d off mood. Yes we got a > nasty storm (actually a couple) down here yesterday. Hail at Bomaderry > through to Terara and Worrigee (where I live),massive Cb,scud being drawn up > at about 30 to 45 degrees, possible rotation, massive electrical storm at > around 9pm etc.,et al, so on and so forth. Where was I you ask? At work on > duty.Bugger. > Now that I'm at home ready to go with 2 cameras and a VCR, will we get > anything? Ask Murphy. > Shaun Nowra > buggerbuggerbugger > > > > >From: Andrew Puddifer > >Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > >To: aussie-weather at world.std.com > >Subject: aus-wx: Nowra. > >Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:42:23 +1100 > > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there anyone down Nowra way on the list? There is a very > >nasty storm down there on radar, I wouldn't want to be too close > >to it! > > > > Regards, Andrew. > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > > message. > > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com > with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your > message. > -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "John Graham" To: "Aussie Weather" Subject: aus-wx: NSW STA Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:26:47 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY NEW SOUTH WALES REGIONAL OFFICE Issued at 1223 on Saturday the 4th of November 2000 This advice affects people in the following weather districts: Northern Tablelands, Northern Rivers, Mid-North Coast, and the Hunter Thunderstorms are forecast within the advice area this afternoon. Some of these are expected to be severe bringing large hailstones, damaging winds and very heavy rainfall. The STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE advises that as storms approach people should: * put vehicles under cover * move indoors away from windows During and after the storm people should: * beware of fallen trees and power lines * keep away from creeks and drains as you may be swept away The RTA recommends motorists switch their lights & wipers on & slow down in the wet. If your house is damaged contact the State Emergency Service on 132 500 for emergency assistance. Do not use the telephone during the storm. TV CRAWL: Severe Thunderstorm Advice current for Northern Tablelands, Northern Rivers, Mid-North Coast and the Hunter. NOT FOR BROADCAST: This Advice message is valid until 4:30pm. The Bureau and SES would appreciate it being broadcast regularly until this time. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ John Graham gorzzzz at dingoblue.net.au or gorzzz at yahoo.com ICQ# 25440353 Member of the Australian Severe Weather Assoc. http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ Snail Mail PO Box 1072 Ballina 2478 NSW Australia +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Sender: nzts.nz at pop3.caverock.net.nz (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:16:40 +1300 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: John Gaul Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Storms Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com I'm back home in ChCh after spending the last 9 days around the Newcastle/Hunter area and was so annoyed and dissapointed to having to leave yesterday when there was obviously so much activity happening around the region. I managed to get some good video shots of the Cbs over Sydney but unfortunately couldn't video from the plane at take off time around 7pm. The Cb towers looked impressive in the sunlight. Was there a tornado out there somewhere? Anyway back home to boring anticyclonic conditions and much cooler temps although it is the cooler temps that bring on any chance of storm activity here in the east coast of the South Island, this time of year. Thanks Jimmy for those phone calls. Hope your chase went well. Shame not to meet you in person also other Sydney ASWA members - could of swapped T-shirts !!! Next time. John Gaul NZ Thunderstorm Society. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [203.54.89.26] From: "S G" To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Subject: aus-wx: Get a grip jannah!!! and t'storm season Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 16:17:42 CST X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2000 05:47:43.0113 (UTC) FILETIME=[C00AA790:01C04622] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Thanks guys, I wasn't sure if anyone was going to support me on that one thought I may have been a bit harsh. I'm sure I could still cop some flack for it but who cares. Well I think the thunderstorm season has arrived for Australia. Thunderstorms everywhere. In the latest precis forecast for Adelaide for this Wednesday the forecast reads: shower or thunderstorm ahead of a late change and 30 degrees. This is the first time for ages the word thunderstorm has been used in a headline for Adelaide. The change looks fairly significant, hopefully there will be some decent moisture ahead of it unlike the last change that had heaps of moisture ahead of it but too far to the east of Adelaide instead. Anyway I won't get my hopes up. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Sender: nzts.nz at pop3.caverock.net.nz (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:59:00 +1300 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: John Gaul Subject: Re: aus-wx: Sydney storm!!! Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com At 15:53 3/11/00 CST, you wrote: >Wow!!! > >What a massive storm right near Sydney with a rainfall rate of 100mm/hr!!! >I'm not in Sydney of course but it must be a thriller storm. Can't wait to >hear reports. A pitty Adelaide hasn't had a decent storm since April but I >think the Sydneysiders deserve some interesting weather more than we do. >_________________________________________________________________________ I was in central Sydney yesterday in the duration of the storm but nothing really spectacular there at ground level apart from a weak thunder-shower around 3pm John Gaul NZ Thunderstorm Soc. NZTS - more than just thunder +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Matthew Piper" To: "Aussie Weather" Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:28:04 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Hi everyone, im at Matt Pipers place at the moment and he has  very kindly let me put some video captures up of the tornado yesterday ! I think people will be very impressed by some of the images, i still cant believe it !!! They are located here :
 
 
All the images starting with "m1" and "m2" etc etc are my images, the rest are some captures Matt Piper did off the TV.
 
All the images starting with "m" are strictly copyright to me.  If anyone wants to use them for 1 reason or another, just call me and will probably give you permission. The video will be shown at the next ASWA meeting, and i cant wait to see everyone else's photos !!! Malcolm got his photos back showing the wall cloud clearly ! Anyway im off, cya's later
 
Matt Smith
 
 
 X-Sender: bayns at mail.broad.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 16:38:40 +1000 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: steve baynham Subject: aus-wx: SE Qld Webcam Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com hi everybody, storms all over the joint, and moving in many different directions. there was a red patch headed straight for me on teh gold coast but it died, just a bit of rain and soft thunder. i know there was one CG cos i saw the flash and it would've had to been a strike. teh thunder to that was awesome. i did manage to get my black and white webcam goin as it approached. the damm thing kept crashing my computer, old piece of junk!:( check there through the night as i might get it goin. see bottom of email for website address. if these storms south of ipswich keep going, they could put on a show for me. they are currently in the hail status on radar check yas Steve Baynham http://www.angelfire.com/ok/gany Australian Severe Weather Association http://www.severeweather.asn.au Brisbane Storm Chasers http://www.bsch.simplenet.com +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Anthony Spierings" To: Subject: aus-wx: BNE storm buildup images Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:08:35 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hello All, I was able to take some pictures with a (somewhat) stuffed digital camera. They show the storm that built up near Esk (75 km west) around 14:30 local. Nothing flash, but some might find it interesting. Images are around 30 kb in size. http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-01.jpg http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-02.jpg http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-03.jpg http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-04.jpg http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-05.jpg http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-06.jpg http://users.bigpond.net.au/spierings/storms/04nov2000-07.jpg Anthony Spierings as029 at bigpond.net.au +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ X-Originating-IP: [203.173.129.205] From: "Paul Graham" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 18:33:10 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2000 07:30:25.0896 (UTC) FILETIME=[1958B680:01C04631] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Hi Matt!
Some of those are absolutely brilliant - especially the end ones - well done!  I wish I had stayed in Sydney rather than having gone to the Hunter!!
Paul G.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :)

Hi everyone, im at Matt Pipers place at the moment and he has  very kindly let me put some video captures up of the tornado yesterday ! I think people will be very impressed by some of the images, i still cant believe it !!! They are located here :
 
 
All the images starting with "m1" and "m2" etc etc are my images, the rest are some captures Matt Piper did off the TV.
 
All the images starting with "m" are strictly copyright to me.  If anyone wants to use them for 1 reason or another, just call me and will probably give you permission. The video will be shown at the next ASWA meeting, and i cant wait to see everyone else's photos !!! Malcolm got his photos back showing the wall cloud clearly ! Anyway im off, cya's later
 
Matt Smith
 
 
 X-Originating-IP: [203.173.129.205] From: "Paul Graham" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 18:49:38 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2000 07:46:40.0474 (UTC) FILETIME=[5E3D83A0:01C04633] Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
PS.  I presume the specs in m30.jpg are water droplets on the lens and not debris being lifted?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :)

Hi everyone, im at Matt Pipers place at the moment and he has  very kindly let me put some video captures up of the tornado yesterday ! I think people will be very impressed by some of the images, i still cant believe it !!! They are located here :
 
 
All the images starting with "m1" and "m2" etc etc are my images, the rest are some captures Matt Piper did off the TV.
 
All the images starting with "m" are strictly copyright to me.  If anyone wants to use them for 1 reason or another, just call me and will probably give you permission. The video will be shown at the next ASWA meeting, and i cant wait to see everyone else's photos !!! Malcolm got his photos back showing the wall cloud clearly ! Anyway im off, cya's later
 
Matt Smith
 
 
 X-Sender: nzts.nz at pop3.caverock.net.nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 20:59:59 +1300 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: John Gaul Subject: aus-wx: Nice Satellitte Pix Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com The latest satellite pix from NZ shows a nice line of storms up alaong the Queensland Coast Queenslanders - ENJOY John Gaul NZTS - more than just thunder http://www.met.co.nz/home/products/oaod/sat/sat06.html +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "Matthew Piper" To: Subject: Re: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 21:12:41 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com
Further to Matt Smiths email earlier there are some pics which I took from home (Blaxland) of the storms around Sydney yesterday afternoon.
 
Go to
 
and look for the files named test, test 2 etc
 
Matthew Piper
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 5:28 PM
Subject: aus-wx: Sydney Tornado Captures ! :)

Hi everyone, im at Matt Pipers place at the moment and he has  very kindly let me put some video captures up of the tornado yesterday ! I think people will be very impressed by some of the images, i still cant believe it !!! They are located here :
 
 
All the images starting with "m1" and "m2" etc etc are my images, the rest are some captures Matt Piper did off the TV.
 
All the images starting with "m" are strictly copyright to me.  If anyone wants to use them for 1 reason or another, just call me and will probably give you permission. The video will be shown at the next ASWA meeting, and i cant wait to see everyone else's photos !!! Malcolm got his photos back showing the wall cloud clearly ! Anyway im off, cya's later
 
Matt Smith
 
 
 X-Sender: mbath at pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:19:25 +1100 To: aussie-weather at world.std.com From: Michael Bath Subject: aus-wx: CHASE: NE NSW - hail, h.rain, supercell structure Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all, I had a quite successful chase today, covering about 200km. I headed west from my place at 12.00. Storms had already developed from the NW through to the SW, mainly on the eastern slopes of the Great Divide. By 1pm I was at Mullumgum which is about 30km west of Casino on the Bruxner Highway. A storm with intense precipitation and a nice flanking line to its SW was edging along the Richmond Range. I wasn't all that familiar with the area, but continued on to Mallanganee where the highway rises up about 300 metres to pass over the Richmond Range. There was a dirt road heading north along the top of the range, which turned out to be the most beautiful storm spotting location: the road was at the very top of the ridge which is aligned N-S, and there are virtually no trees thanks to the cattle farmers! What a view - and in all directions! I stayed here a while and watched the first storm edge towards the NE, while new cells gathered to my SW and W. Shortly before 2pm the cell to the SW developed a lovely ragged base and soon after the first CGs were occurring. These became quite frequent (every few seconds) with deep rumbling booms spreading through the valleys. Soon intense precipitation with a hail shaft formed and only about 3ks S of me. The storm was very slow moving. It was apparent new activity was forming on the S and SW side of the storm with new rain free ragged looking bases. I decided to head back east as this activity seemed it would generally propagate that way, which it did. By 3.20pm I was back in Casino with the storm bearing down on the area. Several regions of intense precipitation and probable hail shafts were observed. A detached sort of shelf cloud formed north of the precipitation core just before it hit town. Around 3.30pm the first large drops fell, followed by some small hail. Heavy rain continued for about 20 mins with gutters in town awash. As this storm started to clear the area, another was becoming visible to the SSW. Calls from John Graham and Dann confirmed the pulsey nature of the storms around the North Coast (but most into the red on radar), but a more significant storm was making its way NE. I caught sight of a magnificent inflow region on this storm's NW flank. There were several lowerings and the whole feature appeared to be a wall cloud, but I was a little too far north of it to be sure. A prong formed on the left (eastern side) of this and a funnel shaped protrusion in the middle. This unfortunately did not last long and the whole inflow region soon dissipated, and not long after the whole storm weakened. A call from Jimmy who has made his way to Grafton indicated the storm looked supercellular from his southern vantage point, but was surprised to hear how quickly it decayed (like the Sydney tornado storm the day before). I was rather pissed off it collapsed like that on me as I was in perfect position to observe severe features, I also had a terrible headache, and was just going to head home when I noticed a marked lowering to the W from a new storm. At first I was still going to abandon watching it, but it soon became very photogenic and very interesting, and seemed to be moving in a NE direction, bringing it closer. It very much looked like this: http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/1996/1231mb21.jpg but about 20ks away rather than just the 5 or so in this picture. I moved to a better location and watched this storm punch out CGs and develop some more intense rainfall areas. It was after 5pm now so the colours from the sun getting lower in the sky were nice. There was a distinct green tinge in the clouds for at least 20 minutes. I headed home around 6pm as this storm petered out. About 7pm this evening an enormous storm came into view to the N. This was near Beudesert in QLD at the time, and with the setting sun was a magical sight. This beast was around 50,000 feet high and had a huge backshear. Awesome !!! Michael. ============================================================= Michael Bath mailto:mbath at ozemail.com.au McLeans Ridges http://australiasevereweather.com/ NE NSW Australia http://www.lightningphotography.com/ ASWA Secretary http://www.severeweather.asn.au/ ============================================================= +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------ From: "John Sweatman" To: Subject: aus-wx: Re: Storm Chase \ tornado damage path Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:47:17 +1100 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com sorry all.. I forgot to snip out the whole aussie weather digest out of the thread history. Hope it didnt clog up the list too much, specially to ppl like me on the digest :( ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Sweatman" To: Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:26 PM Subject: Storm Chase \ tornado damage path > Hi All > > Thought I'd give a brief description of my encounter with the Sydney > tornadic Supercell yesterday. > > I left work (North Ryde) at 4:05pm and headed west along Epping Rd and then > west along Carlingford Road. All this time I could see the storm approaching > closer and closer. It was the most menacing looking storm I have seem for > over three years I think. I saw a number of small funnels develop but didn't > reach the ground. I wasn't in the right place to witness the tornado that > Matt taped though. > > At the end of Carlingford Road I turned left and headed SW down Pennant > Hills Rd. This is when it struck. The hail actually started before the rain > did and it was quite a sight to see hail stones bouncing around on the dry > road. The rain then started and became extremely heavy and the hail stones > became more frequent and larger (about 1/2 golf ball size some bigger). They > made a real racquet hitting the car and I was sure it would have been dented > but it turned out that it sustained no damage. Many cars mounted the gutters > and onto the footpath to seek shelter under trees. The road quickly became > flooded too and you could only really drive in the middle lanes , the > gutters were that full. > > When I got to the Old Windsor Road intersection at Old Toongabbie the rain > and hail stopped and I was able to see some nice intercloud lightning > strikes. I'm sure there was heaps of CG's too but didnt see any due to the > heavy precip I think. Saw another funnel clound at this point too. > > I then headed up to Castle Hill and watched the backend of the storm which > was now over the Hornsby area, and then headed home to Telopea where it was > obvious that there had also been hail. > > This was my best storm chase in years and the first time I had seen and been > in hail since the great Sydney hailstorm of April 14 1999. > > This morning I went on a bit of a damage assesment where the tornado had hit > in Greystaines / Pendle Hill and found the damage track in a small area on > both sides of the M4 which is where Matt said he filmed it. A few big gum > trees uprooted in a park along with lots of smaller trees and houses with > bad roof damage and fences destroyed. A photo of one of those houses is in > todays SMH. > > One thing that puzzled me though was all the trees in the park that were > blown down were facing in the same direction though still think it was > tornadic as the damage was confined to such a small area. Still, if anyone > else has checked out the damage too, I'd be interested in their thoughts. > > Also went to Fairfield were there were leaves over the ground everywhere > from the hail but no wind damage that i could see. > > Anyway, so much for a brief report :) > > Cheers > > John Sweatman > > > ----- Original Message ----- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ To unsubscribe from aussie-weather send e-mail to:majordomo at world.std.com with "unsubscribe aussie-weather your_email_address" in the body of your message. -----------------------jacob at iinet.net.au------------------------------