South-Hamilton Tornado F-1 damage photos

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 02:57

Here are a few photos I took after the tornado (apparently) after looking at the damage I gave it an F-1. Every time I looked at the situation the labelling of a tornado became clearer. Debris all over SH1. I did get a little bit excited.. at the time I had no idea there was a tornado 300m from here. I talked to the guy with the most damage on the SH1/Uni rouund about.. he said it was a tornado without a doubt, he saw it ravage down SH1 between Caltex and Hillcrest normal! That's Hamilton's busiest road incidently

Not the best pictures... I plan to get up early for better photo lighting and more!!

I honestly don't understand the poor seat here!

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/09/2005 05:55

wholly moley!!
300m from your place, WOW!!

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 17/09/2005 07:18

Woohoo! Action weather at last!

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Sat 17/09/2005 08:18

Absolutely no offence intended, but this happened 300m away from you, an ardent weather fanatic, and you didnt know? Were you asleep at the time?

The fact you didnt know about it says a lot for how small and well contained the event was, which makes it more likely it was a tornado, rather than a squall type wind. If you are out looking at damage this morning see if you can get a sense of which way trees are leaning or how they are lying on the ground, or what sides of them are most damaged. If you can plot this on a map, you may be able to confirm whether there is some evidence of rotation in the debris pattern, or whether it all points the same way.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/09/2005 08:31

foggy posted this at the time:

5 MINUTE SPELL OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SQUALL PACKING A PUNCH!

MORE IN A BIT!!!!

WOW.. ADRENELIN RUSH TO THE MAX

in the tasman low thread

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 17/09/2005 08:36

5 MINUTE SPELL OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SQUALL PACKING A PUNCH!

MORE IN A BIT!!!!

WOW.. ADRENELIN RUSH TO THE MAX

How much wind was around your house foggy.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Sat 17/09/2005 08:37

Exciting stuff Foggy!

looks like that tree was blown violently one way and then over the other to bend that seat like that.. what could you hear as it was passing?

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 17/09/2005 10:01

Great stuff there foggy, you alwasy seem to be in the action!!

Hamilton roads clear after storm
17/09/2005 8:10:02

The roads are clear again in Hamilton this morning, after a sharp and violent storm last night.

The Fire Service describes the storm as a mini tornado, which brought down trees and damaged some homes.

Pukete station officer Errol Newlands says they were called to a number of houses to secure roofs where tiles and iron came loose.

Mr Newlands says trees were strewn all over the road.

He says the worst damage he saw was a house on Cambridge Road, which lost around 20 percent of its tiled roof.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 10:27

TonyT wrote:Absolutely no offence intended, but this happened 300m away from you, an ardent weather fanatic, and you didnt know? Were you asleep at the time?

Actually 100m I measured this morning

More pics in a moment, most damage was about the Matangi village, 8km SE of Hillcrest with WHOLE barn roofs gone!

I was talking to Aaron (and steve) on msn at the time about the wind shear in the tasman... and WHOLEY SHIMOLEY

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 10:34

spwill wrote:
5 MINUTE SPELL OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SQUALL PACKING A PUNCH!

MORE IN A BIT!!!!

WOW.. ADRENELIN RUSH TO THE MAX
How much wind was around your house foggy.

Gusts 100km/h here with building and urban shelter, i'm guessing 150km/h+ 100m away at the gardens where it's very exposed to the NW

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 17/09/2005 10:44

Looking forward to more photos Foggy.

I see Met Service are forecasting a low risk of tornadoes on Sunday morning in the north.
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Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 10:48

Here's a video i recorded during the severe squall. Not much to see, just me swearing a bit

Thunder in the background rumbling continuously, can't hear it very well though. A very poor video for a very nice squall

Movie_0001.wmv (just 800kb)

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 11:08

23 pics here...

Uptrunk with weak Cb in background (edited)

This went 3m!

Ouch..!

Girl Guide's house

Please remember I am just over 2m! this makes the trunk 5m!

Farm shed ripped to shreds

SH1 road sign

Northern side of glasshouse

4 trees down here

Last but not least! Cobham Bridge in the background...

Heavy shower now, 14c fresh gusty northwesterly

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 17/09/2005 11:10

Foggy Hamilton wrote:23 pics here...Heavy shower now, 14c fresh gusty northwesterly

Holy crud!

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/09/2005 11:12

awesome pictures foggy!!!
well done!!
so amazing it came within 100m of you filming it!!!

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Sat 17/09/2005 11:16

Great photos Foggy, thanks

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sat 17/09/2005 11:18

Sori Foggy i posted on weatherzone at same time as you did i didn't realize but someon has blocked it for me so its all good now.
Yes very impressive tornado there how many toradoes that this year so farr?

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Nice pics too Foggy.

Cheers
JASON.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 17/09/2005 11:32

I think this could have peaked, if only for a short time, at F2

F2

Significant tornado 113-157 mph Considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars pushed over; large trees snapped or uprooted; light object missiles generated.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 17/09/2005 11:51

These photos show just how powerful severe wind squalls/tornadoes can be - someone could've easily been badly injured or even killed if they were directly caught up in it.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 12:53

Just recently realised that next door, a large branch fell on the house adjacent to it.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 13:14

Hamilton station officer Neil Patrick said the couple of streets that his crew went to looked like they hit by "a little mini-tornado".

"There were two of three houses which had quite a bit of damage," he said.

"We had to patch them up and assess the area."

Mr Patrick said the bad weather hit between 9pm and 10pm.

"It was a severe little storm with really, really heavy rain, and thunder and lightning," he said.

"Then this twister popped out of it."

He said no-one needed to be evacuated and things were getting back to normal.

He understood that all roads were now clear to traffic.

"There's just a big clean-up for people this morning."

- NZPA

Police comms report of the storm tracking from east to west is blantly wrong, easy to make this mistake though!

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Sat 17/09/2005 13:41

Cool pics... Just pleased no one was hurt or worse...

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Sat 17/09/2005 15:13

Great pictures and video of the the event Foggy.

Gregg

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/09/2005 15:15

GreggWard wrote:Great pictures and video of the the event Foggy.

Gregg

Cheers guys, most people are still gob-smacked and my Mum is still without power!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 17/09/2005 15:15

A good photo summary of the damage there Foggy.