BOP getting nuked !

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Fri 25/03/2005 11:37

From the wires....

Expect news reports over media soon.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: 10-1> One hell of a storm hitting the bop

"...another tornado at Thornton after one at Kawerau and one at Paeangoroa and one at Te Puke...

batten down the hatches folks...

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:07 AM
one hell of a storm has just passed through Waihi Beach, Tauranga, Te puke, Paeangoroa and now currently hitting Kawerau - complete with one hell of a electrical storm, torrential downpour and multi tornadoes...

Looks like the Eastern Bop is going to cop it bad as the storm is moving southeast by east - be warned !!!!!

lots of roads and highways now blocked around the Kawerau area - trees down, roofs blown off, petrol tanker vrs car outside the Kawerau Mill, etc etc

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Fri 25/03/2005 11:38

NZ Police CommCens Alert 11:00 25-03-2005 Bay of Plenty

Location of incident: Kawerau to Te Puke

Incident Type: Power lines and Trees across roads.

A tornado has passed through Kawerau across to Te Puke bringing down trees and powerlines. Trees are across State Highway 30 at Thornton. Power lines across the road near the intersection of State Highway 2 and Wilson Rd, Paengaroa. Surface flooding on the Kaimai Ranges SH 29, Powerlines down SH2 south of Te Puke. Trees across the road at the intersection of SH 30 and SH 34. Drivers requested to drive with extreme caution

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Fri 25/03/2005 11:40

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Fri 25/03/2005 11:43

ok then......

things have changed somewhat.....

heres a landcare image of the BOP superdupermegatasticmulti cell!

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Fri 25/03/2005 11:48

Rahh!!!! Someone please be covering this!! The news will I guess tonight, but if you guy's like NZstorm and Spwill are that'll make it much better!

Well I'm glad I said something earlier

, the chances were better for something happening today then other days. Looks like it's occured in the late morning period and a bit further east than I thought. Still, I maintain that if something forms in the Waikato this afternoon there could be something. The shear pattern is quite good for today.

Hope people out there are allright..

Amazing stuff, that is a big Cb there C-nimbus! A supercell!!!

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Fri 25/03/2005 11:55

Aaron "the tornado whisperer" Wilkinson!!!

should be working for metservice

Seriously tho well done, thats some serious prediction skills there.

12 o clock news should be on soon, hopefully have something on it then.

Can't see why there is still a thunder risk for Aucks this arvo???

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:02

hit before 10 this morning, sounds like an f0-f1

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:06

Haha, thanks C-nimbus.

To be honest though I got things slightly wrong. I keep trying to narrow things down and BOP was a little out of the range where I thought things would be. Still, it's more of a likely day than others. But the risk remains if storms develop this afternoon from Northland to Waikato/central North Island I think.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:07

Report on NewstalkZB of roofs being lifted from several buildings. Forgot exact location.

Yes well done to Aaron for his tornado forecast. I almost made the same comment. This is a typical tornado situation for the Bay of Plenty. The onshore low level NE sets up a great shear situation for them. Also a report of 70mm rain in an hour near Tauranga.

Thunderstorm risk has subdided for Auckland/Waikato for now. We will need to see a feature come in off the Tasman sea to act as a trigger.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:15

Well done Aaron and the Met Service.

Photo is of departing storm mid morn.
Lots of strong development, no wonder some locations East of here have been hit hard.

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:16

Round of applause for Aaron....

Should start getting reports from East Cape shortly
Gonna be a helluva mess down there though

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:18

WOW! Another Tornado??? 70mm in ONE hour?!?!

TOP marks Aaron and MetService!

Wonderful Cb to the SE here

T-storms still possible this afternoon

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:29

Tornado hits Kawerau

Mar 25, 2005

A tornado has ripped through Kawerau and across to Te Puke in the Bay of Plenty, leaving a trail of destruction.

The police say they began receiving calls from residents in the area shortly before 10am.

Trees and power poles have been brought down, and a roof has been lifted off a house along State Highway Two at Pongakawa, south-east of Te Puke.

The manager of the Pongokawa BP station, Norman Mowbray says a family had windows blown out of their vehicles and others reported serious damage.

The police say trees are down across State Highway 30 at Thornton, and there is surface flooding on the Kaimai Ranges. Drivers are being urged to take extreme care.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:37

Yes Wow

what a way to wake up scoffing hot cross buns on my birthday yeppp 18 today not a bad age.
That sure is one big CB over B.O.P especially from sattelite images if you dream enough

it could almost look like a tropical cyclone developing but dreams will run wild .

I certainly hope noone was injured with the tornado hmmm what to come next?.
cheers
Jason Tippet.

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:37

Foggy Hamilton wrote: _______________________
Willoughby,
of the mighty Waikato - where the grass is browner

Ha! I say, Sir. I challenge you to dust at thirty paces!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:41

This Storm out to our East this morn would have been heading for Southern Coromandel and BOP.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:51

CbFan wrote:
Foggy Hamilton wrote: _______________________
Willoughby,
of the mighty Waikato - where the grass is browner

Ha! I say, Sir. I challenge you to dust at thirty paces!

lol, ok, ok ill change it back to my original one

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Fri 25/03/2005 12:54

Spoken like a true coward

anyway back to topic....

Report of Tauranga thunder setting off car alarms at it's peak.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 25/03/2005 13:13

Ricky, how 'live' is the detector?
I heard about the tornado and storms here for Kawerau on here an hour after it happened, and the lightning it seems just starts to appear online?

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/03/2005 13:42

Midday sounding shows a capped environment over the upper North Island in behind that thunderstorm line. Hence we have a nice day in Auckland with 5/8 cumulus and 24C.

Next front through this area could produce more thunderstorms particularly if dewpoints can hold up a bit. Current dp 17C.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/03/2005 13:57

Ecellent photo of departing storm spwill.

Check out Met Service lightning page. phenomenal amount of lightning.

http://www.geographynetwork.co.nz/websi ... viewer.htm

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Fri 25/03/2005 14:14

yes! I've been viwing the metstrike map to help check the detector, but its hopeless now lol

re how live the detector.. the data is uploaded every minute or so and more often to the weather-display-live files, so should be pretty up-to-date...
I did notice today though with the decent storm that the storm location system was adjusting strikes back to be closer than they should have been... I restarted NexStorm a few times which forced it to re-calculate.. possibly it was because the storm was increasing intensity as it moved away so, for the detector, the movement seemed slower? It also seemed to be ignoring any activity away from the main storm centre, perhaps it was a bit much data for the machine to deal with lol

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/03/2005 15:18

Some large cu going up out to the east of here and can see a freshly developed cb to sth.

Current temp 25C.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Fri 25/03/2005 15:25

latest metservice thunderforecast, very vague

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 25/03/2005 15:53

May well see a thunderstorm or two over the Wiakato/Auckland regions in the next few hours as a weak line passes in the flow. I can a cb top over Waikato(near Hamilton). LI this afternoon of around -3.

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