Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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I see 44mm back home at my place
I am in Whangarei currently. Heavy rain currently here now finally
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Rain now light to moderate locally, gusty NNE wind. That snaking convergence zone in the west of Auckland now has a PWS at Waiatarua on 139mm for the day. EC was projecting 10 to 15mm for them :smile:
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Starting to think we'll be lucky to make 15mm, looking at the radar :(
Hopefully I'm proved wrong
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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i just heard thunder here in takanini :-) :-)

heavy rain now. only one rumble of thunder heard.

woah. this is the best rain ive seen in auckland for a long time.
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Temperature/DP drop here just now, on the cool side of the system now.
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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intresting reports of a tornado tearing through waikato farms today.



https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118265 ... kato-farms
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Coming down like a firehose on full in Hamilton central now. About 40mm/hr at a guess.

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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Brighter in the west though still raining. 18mm here.
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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Got 21mm. Nice watering for the garden finally 🙂
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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I got 20mm here. best rain we had all month. even heard a rumble of thunder. some wind damage around the city and possible tornado reported in waikato. flood on tamaki drive.
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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15mm here....another painful 2019 day of just missing a convergence zone but I'm happy to get some rain. Huge numbers west and north west of here, multiple PWS 100mm+ locations. Access R the only model to pick up the intensity of the convergence but projected it slightly more east than where it unloaded.
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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I wonder if the tornado in waikato was a actual tornado or just a big wind gust. Tornadoes were mentioned in their thunderstorm outlooks for today but also wind gusts were mentioned. witness says that they saw a funnel of trees. so that suggest a small tornado?
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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We have 102mm for the day so far with a peak rate of 88.9mm/hr around 3pm here in Swanson. Hopefully topped off the rain tank for a while!
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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I see a thunderstorm cell has formed in northland
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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52mm we got.great !
There is reports of poplar trees blown down in my area
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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tornado wrote: Tue 17/12/2019 18:56 I wonder if the tornado in waikato was a actual tornado or just a big wind gust. Tornadoes were mentioned in their thunderstorm outlooks for today but also wind gusts were mentioned. witness says that they saw a funnel of trees. so that suggest a small tornado?
Probably a small tornado but the media over hype these events.

Yesterdays news headline was BIG tornado tears through Waikato. In reality it was 1 tree and a garage roof.

That was exceptional rain in the west of Auckland yesterday.
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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NZstorm wrote: Wed 18/12/2019 10:52 Probably a small tornado but the media over hype these events.

Yesterdays news headline was BIG tornado tears through Waikato. In reality it was 1 tree and a garage roof.
I think it was more like 15 large trees damaged or uprooted, plus some fairly minor property damage. Agree about Newshub's dodgy headline 'quote' though. However they did include a pretty good eyewitness account from dairy farmer, Woulter van Kuijk (scroll down to their 1:43pm and 1:51pm comments), as did Stuff in their initial story (towards the end), along with some good tree damage pics. Note that Stuff later toned down the word 'tornado', after quoting MetService as saying that that particular passing cell at the time "wasn't producing any lightning but it was still quite a tall cloud and had the potential to produce some gusts". Looks like they also had about 5mm dumped within about 5 minutes. It does kinda sound like a tornado though, or maybe it was just the 'Kaimai Buster' up to its old tricks again?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeal ... untry.html

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118265 ... kato-farms
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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yes agree i dont like how newshub called it big. I think it was a small tornado. well at least they not calling it a mini tornado.
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Re: Heavy Rain and Severe NW Gales, Sth Is. and lower Nth Is. - Dec 2-7

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I discovered a possible tornado came through the local regional park here on the heavy rain day...I has reported there was poplar trees blown down
The damage at the park is in a very narrow line...tree branches twisted and broken off on descret only parts of pohutakawa trees
My toa met service lightning detector recorded strikes in the area at the same time too
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Re: Thunderstorms around the North Island - Dec 16-17

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we could do a tornado damage survey on the weather meet :)
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