Thunderstorms, 12 July-

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:20

Some hail in Hamilton today according to TV1 weather

Showed a short clip, looked a good hail storm, must have missed foggys place.

Nice photo there Brian

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:26

spike_01 wrote:Still blasting away here... Prolly the best ( worst ) storm in 15 years...

I could see big flashes of lightning down your way, from about 4:00pm this afternoon. The flashes were clearly seen from Palmerston North.

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:34

Cameo1 wrote:
Thanks for that, it did answer a thing or two One of my wishes is to actually go down to the Waikato in Summer and observe some storms, but I also want to go to Auzzie and check out some supercells .
It's getting dark to my south west now and and anvil over north Auk is streatching over us here. Also, I can see very distant huge anvil tops to my west with the sun behind them. The forcast now is for rain tonight. Welly is being totally hammered and so has the central north island.

I would quite like to go to Aussie, as well, to check out some of those big storms they get in SE Queensland/NE New Soth South Wales. From what I've read on some of the Australian Severe Weather sites, November seems to be one of the best months to go and view these.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:43

spwill wrote:
Some hail in Hamilton today according to TV1 weather
Showed a short clip, looked a good hail storm, must have missed foggys place.

Nice photo there Brian

Nope I got it alright!

Beautiful CG's as well.

Rain rate up to 5.2mm/MIN in that hailstorm. New record for my station.

13361 strikes so far today.. but my 'squelch' is set to zero.

What a beautiful day.. active front to come!!

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:54

Had hoped we could see a few flashes or what ever from the west tonight, but things are looking quiet lightning wise over the alps.

Norht Island still looking very active.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:59

Cameo1 wrote: One of my wishes is to actually go down to the Waikato in Summer and observe some storms,

Watch this space.. would be awesome this spring/summer for a chase with Brian, the Williams, ricky, tgsnoopy and whoever keen!

(now we've got all this fancy gear!!)

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 12/07/2006 19:59

Foggy Hamilton wrote:
Cameo1 wrote: One of my wishes is to actually go down to the Waikato in Summer and observe some storms,
Watch this space.. would be awesome this spring/summer for a chase with Brian, the Williams, ricky, tgsnoopy and whoever keen!
(now we've got all this fancy gear!!)

Might even see me up that way at some stage.....

Manukau heads obs · Wed 12/07/2006 20:19

yup, will be good to do another waikato chase like last year

some of those build ups I observed today, around cambridge, the verical updraft speed was surprisingly strong....you could easily watch the cumulus billow and roll

next front showing nicely on rain radar out to the west

has some purple bits in it

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 20:25

Hail from Hailton today.. some trademe member

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Wed 12/07/2006 20:26

Just had a few bright flashes of lightning out to our NW. Have had steady heavy rain for the last 0.5hr.

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Wed 12/07/2006 20:27

Foggy Hamilton wrote:Hail from Hailton today.. some trademe member

Foggy,

Around what time did this occur?

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Wed 12/07/2006 20:35

wow heavy rain warning for the whole of the lower half of the NI

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 20:41

GreggWard wrote:
Foggy Hamilton wrote:Hail from Hailton today.. some trademe member
Foggy,

Around what time did this occur?

1.30pm, here's my NexStorm screenshot at the time.

And WD graph..

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Wed 12/07/2006 21:08

Great information and graphics there Foggy.

We have just had a pretty good storm go through Palmerston North in the last 0.5hr. Lightning was pretty frequent (for a winter storm), up to 3 flashes every minute. The wind picked up and got quite squally, as well.

Based on the radar images on Sky TV, it looks like the back of that trough line and the associated storms should move across Palmy and clear within the next hour.

Just as I am writing this, we have just had another big flash of lightning and clap of thunder, from the NW.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Wed 12/07/2006 21:26

Check out the line to the west of Auckland on the 9pm radar image:

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... as=akradar

Maybe 2 hours away?

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Wed 12/07/2006 21:29

yeah, I'm going over to the park now to see if I can see any lightning. I have already seen a couple of very powerful bolts outside to my south.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 12/07/2006 21:38

GraemeWi wrote:Check out the line to the west of Auckland on the 9pm radar image:

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... as=akradar

Maybe 2 hours away?

Looks very impressive!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 21:45

This front on the way looks like a total machine! Some strong shear in there alright!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 12/07/2006 21:53

GraemeWi wrote:Check out the line to the west of Auckland on the 9pm radar image:

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... as=akradar

Maybe 2 hours away?

I don't like looking at things like this.
It makes me feel sick

JohnGaul
NZTS

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Wed 12/07/2006 21:54

I observed 4-5 lightning flashes in 15 mins. One massive intercloud bolt included, it lit up the entire south western skyline. Not much visible activity at the mo, but there was a lot of low level cloud arriving with it. I think this thing has the potential to become quite dangerously severe.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 22:13

Sitting here with an elevated western view, nothing on visuals as yet.
9 strokes/min currently.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 22:35

Iiiinching closer and IC is increasing.. (visually)

DP very high on 11Â°C

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Wed 12/07/2006 22:51

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:I don't like looking at things like this.
It makes me feel sick

JohnGaul
NZTS

Suck... looks like fun. Currently 9.7Â°, low humidity and a warm westerly. Bring on Spring

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Wed 12/07/2006 22:52

This is quite an annoyingly slow front. The activity has died down a bit up here at the mo. Hamilton is basically guaranteed a front row seat

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 12/07/2006 22:59

Yes, may slide completely away from Auckland..

Though something's lurking to the far NW of you guys.