ECL with severe weather for NSW

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Matt Townsend
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ECL with severe weather for NSW

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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
NSW

Top Priority for Immediate Broadcast
NSW SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
Damaging Surf
For people in
Illawarra, Metropolitan, Hunter and southern Mid North Coast

Issued at 11:10 am on Saturday 3 June 2006

Synoptic Situation: 9:00 am EST Saturday


Damaging surf conditions, with waves exceeding 5 metres in the surf zone, may
produce significant beach erosion between Newcastle and Seal Rocks. Swell
directions are from the south.

Dangerous surf conditions with waves in the surf zone near 4 metres and wave
periods of 10 seconds or more are also likely along the remaining coast between
Ulladulla and Smoky Cape.

Gale wind warning had issued too and it expected to be more severe during several days as indicated by this: http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast ... n=seaussie

Looks wet and windy for us, watch out for hail and sleet due to cold pool hovering over top of us too.
Matt Townsend
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Heavy thunderstorms beeen near us all night with massive ccs and cgs galore! A small thunderstorm is coming in now! Winds are gusty here atm :)
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It was hailed in Ballina twice today. I was out in the school oval while it was hailing two times seperated 3 mins each one! It around size of pebble hard part and whole is table tennis balls. I saw couple hailstorms roaring in the east and coast guard told our school there was size of tennis ball over the bay north of East Ballina about 2mins!More thunderstorms developing through this week and next week with massive stuckness here!
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looks like another ecl for nsw by the weekend
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/charts/tw ... lp&hour=-1