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Andrew Massie wrote:Nice anvils.. too bad we didn't see any anvil shots coming from you canty storm chasers
Ok... What's an anvil?

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The top of a thunderhead spreads out in the very upper atmoss and looks like an anvil which a blacksmith uses for making things like horse-shoes for example. :)

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Cumulonimbus are also characterized by a flat, anvil-like top (the anvil dome), caused by straight line winds at the higher altitudes which shear off the top of the cloud, as well as by an inversion over the thunderstorm caused by rising temperatures above the tropopause. This anvil shape can precede the main cloud structure for many miles, causing anvil lightning.
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Ahhhh.... ok, yeah, I agree with John, we didn't see any.. However, here's some I took at Chch Airport a year ago...
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Ahhhh.... ok, yeah, I agree with John, we didn't see any
Would have been anvil cloud about Chch on the 8th.


I see Steven has the rest of the Waimate Tornado photo's now on http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz :D
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I see Steven has the rest of the Waimate Tornado photo's now on http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz Very Happy
most excellent ! :D
You can see that dirt/dust go right up into the cloud by the looks (or I am just imagegining (spelling?) that ?) !!
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Yes Anrew If there are thunderstorms along the southern alps in a gale NW wind flow you will quite often see them to the west which is when we sometimes get rain spillover after gales.
An anvil cloud today on the edge of that heavy thundery shower gone through just before reports now of thunder and lightning in Cheviot it's not surprising some really nice towering clouds out there atm and one silent clap in the distance before.
Sorry thats off topic but there was an anvil b4.
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spwill wrote:
Ahhhh.... ok, yeah, I agree with John, we didn't see any
Would have been anvil cloud about Chch on the 8th.
Nope didnt see one either! Aaron you see an anvil on the 8th?
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Stormchaser said,
Nope didnt see one either! Aaron you see an anvil on the 8th
I did notice an absence of Cb photo's on the forum from that day so the Cb tops were obviosly obscured.
I saved a photo off Jeffs excellent web cam which shows some Cb anvil over BP late afternoon but it is obscured by Cu and strato Cu.
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spwill wrote:

I see Steven has the rest of the Waimate Tornado photo's now on http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz :D

FANTASTIC :D

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03 Stormchaser wrote:Nope didnt see one either! Aaron you see an anvil on the 8th?
Of course there was anvils :D

Remember the second line that came through? It put out an anvil....The first line with the gustnado though we didn't see any anvils.

There might have been other anvils from the Waimate storms etc during the day however I was inside working at the time.

Too right, awsome report there and good on ya for getting those pics NZstorm...great job!!


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If we keep this up we will have USA storm chasers over here especaily going by last year which wasn't much for them we could become a great storm nation :D :lol:
Nice pics and report too NZ storm. :D
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Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:
03 Stormchaser wrote:Nope didnt see one either! Aaron you see an anvil on the 8th?
Of course there was anvils :D

Remember the second line that came through? It put out an anvil....The first line with the gustnado though we didn't see any anvils.
lol yea I remember that one, I only was thinking about that first storm for some reason!!
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
spwill wrote:

I see Steven has the rest of the Waimate Tornado photo's now on http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz :D

FANTASTIC :D
How did you manage to get these photos from Laura?
Do you know this person?
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Thanks for the comments on the report. And Jason, thanks for emailing that link. I sent you a reply but it didn't go thru to your email address for some reason.
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MAGNIFICENT photos Steven! Great website too! =D> \:D/
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Yes tremendous stuff - cheers :D
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NZstrom im just wondering if you got any skew-t's from the waimate Tornado day?? The one from Invercargill or even a model skew-t.

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The only skew-t I have is the following from Invercargill. Text form also available.

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

Also Rakaia winds
90123 28504 30505 30508 9056/29016 28522
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