Tornado Waikato 21/12/05
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Tornado Waikato 21/12/05
Had a great storm chase day in the Waikato with the highlight being a distant Tornado out the back of a Thunderstorm we had been watching over the northern Hauraki Plains.
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Great photos
An early Xmas present I'd say ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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There is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.
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awesome day!!!
yes, we were in the right area, but was heading in the wrong direction at the wrong time! .Saw some good lightning strikes too!!
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yes, we were in the right area, but was heading in the wrong direction at the wrong time! .Saw some good lightning strikes too!!
my pictures attached
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Wow!!!! That sure looks like you guy's had a awsome time!! Wish I could've been there. I think you guy's should go chasing in a group more often and then tornadoes would result more!
Any idea on your thoughts as to why it was produced? Landspout etc? Is always good to learn.
I can see Foggy in the photo! lol.
Cheers
Any idea on your thoughts as to why it was produced? Landspout etc? Is always good to learn.
I can see Foggy in the photo! lol.
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the sun managed to come out for a while before that CB line arrived, and also being in the hauraki plains area, and there was a surface northerly, drawing in warmer moist air from the firth of thames,and a colder gust front developing in behind that, and some amazing instability (i.e the photo where you can see the tall and lanky foggy and we are all pointing at a towering cumulus, that cloud was going up REAL fast, some of the bests updraughts i have seen! )Any idea on your thoughts as to why it was produced?
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Has it been mentioned at all in the media?
Send it to TV one
What a wonderful chase that was, I learnt so much in terms of where to go during a storm etc and the discussions between Brian and Steven was fantastic.. spwill surely is a snapper!!
And ricky's work with the comms and wireless internet was very valueble
Did you guys get much back on the return? Just some recent heavy showers here.
Here's that T/Cu which just exploded right in front of our eyes. Rolling Cu at first, then turned into a Cb after it hit Te Aroha in about 15 minutes!![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Send it to TV one
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What a wonderful chase that was, I learnt so much in terms of where to go during a storm etc and the discussions between Brian and Steven was fantastic.. spwill surely is a snapper!!
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Did you guys get much back on the return? Just some recent heavy showers here.
Here's that T/Cu which just exploded right in front of our eyes. Rolling Cu at first, then turned into a Cb after it hit Te Aroha in about 15 minutes!
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From our vantage point we thought it was low enough to be impacting at ground level.Did that tornado actually touch ground?
Unless it damaged property I guess it's not news.Has it been mentioned at all in the media?
Just steak, salad and fries. Some nice Cb's about though.Did you guys get much back on the return?
A fun day, hope we get out again this Summer.
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midnight here, just got woken up with thunder and torrential rain and hail!!
13mm of rain in that shower!
i see pukekohe got 21mm in that shower that just went past us while we were at bombay at 10:30m that morning!
see:
http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/pukekoh ... rgraph.gif
13mm of rain in that shower!
i see pukekohe got 21mm in that shower that just went past us while we were at bombay at 10:30m that morning!
see:
http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/pukekoh ... rgraph.gif
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Wow. Still unstable and showery this morning. I notice the 500mb temp is colder over Auckland (-20C) than Invercargill (-17C).midnight here, just got woken up with thunder and torrential rain and hail!!
13mm of rain in that shower!
Yes, a landspout tornado. A surface northerly coming in from the Firth of Thames with a backing in the low level winds to WNW at 1000m. I think there was a local surface boundary moving through the area at the time as well.Any idea on your thoughts as to why it was produced? Landspout etc? Is always good to learn.
I think many NZ tornadoes, particularly those in the summer, are landspouts, (as opposed to mesocyclonic tornadoes). They are normaly F0 rarely F1. I think the march Greymouth tornado was evidence that the landpout process (spin up) can lead to a signifcant tornado with possible F2 damage there.
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