Afternoon Showers & Thunder, Upper North, 27th-1st.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:25

spwill wrote:The Front out to our west is lightning active, good chance of a show toninght.

excellent.....*Arches fingers like Mr.Burns*

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:29

Yes! i see the news called it another mini tornado! i hate that word.
We had a thunderstorm (mesocyclone) down here earlier this year witch formed a tornado in waimate. F2 on the scale, still called that a mini one. geez

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:29

[quote="C-Nimbus excellent.....*Arches fingers like Mr.Burns*[/quote]

Ha ha.

I saw a strike hit a power pole. It was just ahead of me on the left as I was driving.

Huge flash of blue light, followed by a very loud bang !

I stopped traffic, I didn't want to drive past it until I could see no more sparks.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:32

Heavy rain here. Very windy.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:48

odd rumble coming thru.....

gusty too

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:51

6.30pm close up on Auckland Radar...

Manukau heads obs · Sun 01/10/2006 19:03

the lightning was very powerfull, very bright flashes , even from big distances, and very loud low frequency thunder

better than the usa thunderstorms in some regards (you just dont get as much ligthtning and its hard to see in because of all the rain!
will be good to be able to see more at night out to the west

great photos spwill

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:11

Heaviest rain we have had all day right now. Little wind now. We can't hear the TV at normal volume

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:17

More lightning over auckland city now

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:24

Activity over City visible on radar...

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:32

Weathermad wrote:Activity over City visible on radar...

Thanks for the images today weathermad

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:37

Just has a strike with a few hundred metres of here I reckon.
Torrential rain at the moment.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:41

Yes that strike must have been local, thunder shook the house.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:49

spwill wrote:Yes that strike must have been local, thunder shook the house.

Yeah sounded far away. But still threatening.

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:49

You're welcome Cameo....what a time you have been having up there!

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 19:52

Activity easing a little perhaps for some?...

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 20:04

Weathermad wrote:Activity easing a little perhaps for some?...

Yes, we haven't had a thunderstorm in our vicinity for quite some time.
Although the odd distant rumble, coming from who knows where....the wind can carry sound quite a distance. But check out the lightning off the west coast in the Tazy...sheeeesh

I am Trying to do an essay due tomorrow and It's really frustrating, all this excitement...

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Sun 01/10/2006 20:23

Lots of activity here now.

Flashes and thunder but no rain.

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 20:33

Airports turn for a hammering...

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 20:55

Peopled_Diagram wrote:Lots of activity here now.

Flashes and thunder but no rain.

Lucky you. We are only getting extremely heavy rain.

Paul Mallinson · Unread post by **Paul Mallinson** » Sun 01/10/2006 21:03

I had a day off today.

What a great read its been following your reports. Quite a day.

I'm not sure when the front is due thru the Auckland area but with thunderstorms occurring on the front and the extra shear involved (backing with height) this could be a scenario for more twisters.

Paul

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 21:13

Paul Mallinson wrote:I had a day off today.

What a great read its been following your reports. Quite a day.

I'm not sure when the front is due thru the Auckland area but with thunderstorms occurring on the front and the extra shear involved (backing with height) this could be a scenario for more twisters.

Paul

Yay!!!

Can't wait. Just as long as they don't come here.lol. You would think that as the front encroaches onto shallower and therefore warmer westcoast waters it would explode into electrical life, given the right atmospheric condtions. Will this happen do you think?

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 21:15

9pm Radar...

Paul Mallinson · Unread post by **Paul Mallinson** » Sun 01/10/2006 21:22

If it came through in the overnight hours it could be that if temps over the land get a chance to fall some, then they may act as a break on the activity, but there will probably be enough wind to keep the temps up through mixing. In these scenario, the thundery activity often takes place over the sea or in the onshore flow off the sea.

From the TV1 weather, I seem to recall that by about midday tomorrow the leading trough which gave today's activity was depicted over the Coromandel and the cold front was somewhere in the Auckland area.

The thunderstorm threat chart is carrying a risk of severe storms in the overnight period to midday tomorrow and more TSs in the afternoon.

Paul

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sun 01/10/2006 21:24

I got a really nice reply from the reporter from TVNZ who did the tornado report. It seems the term came from the fire crews on the scene. Anyway, if another tornado occurs hopefully we may not hear the 'mini' word

I sent her a link to the forum and a link to the wikipedia article on tornadoes.

Cheers,

G