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

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:31

See the other thread I started for our afternoon...it seems we really copped the full monty of this one. Still regular booms and shakes here

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:43

ricky wrote:Strike quite close to here, about 2km away.. very bright and loud!
reports of tornado damage ranui... and roofs off buildings henderson

Close strike? Looks like you got hammered!

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:44

1 second gap for one of our strikes. Really loud. Most over this way were CC strikes

Manukau heads obs · Sun 01/10/2006 16:45

close strikes here too, big flashes, booming rattling thunder 1 km away

not surprised by a tornado report, i was watching cloud bases that would have supported one!

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:46

severe?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:49

Still getting the odd bright lightning flash and loud Thunder clap

Watched the storm move in from MtEden, here's a photo.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 01/10/2006 16:50

just had another big flash, phone went ting!
even though its well through,at the surface, its bening back over the top
gota go and milk cows now

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:55

The thunda shook the house - you could feel the shockwave.

One very bright flash - one house shaking crash and nothing more heard - sigh:(

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 01/10/2006 16:57

Rain here is torrential.

Here's another photo of our Storm moving in.

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:02

Great pics spwill.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:02

Very heavy ts rain here still.

25mm last hour, most of that last 30mins!

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:03

would that be catagorised as a severe thunderstorm? you guys are getting what we already had

janewaystv · Unread post by **janewaystv** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:04

Wow, what great cloud pictures spwill

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:08

well it was certainly severe here. I thought it was the end of the world coming...not surprised to hear report of tornado down road in Ranui, about 5 km from here. I've never heard such loud thunder and the rain has caused carnage...sirens still everywhere at mo.

And they say more to come tonight and tomorrow? Hell!

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:12

Great pic's - Spwill

It's wonderful to finally get some action.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:16

Peopled_Diagram wrote:Great pic's - Spwill

It's wonderful to finally get some action.

I reckon. I can hear it from here....

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:17

Razor wrote:well it was certainly severe here. I thought it was the end of the world coming...not surprised to hear report of tornado down road in Ranui, about 5 km from here. I've never heard such loud thunder and the rain has caused carnage...sirens still everywhere at mo.

And they say more to come tonight and tomorrow? Hell!

LOL

You were lucky. Was it that really high pitched crack when it's really close that you heared?

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:24

Great pictures !!

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:31

stunning piccies spwill!

yes we have just been up to the waitaks to see the deluge, my first thought was cloud burst due to the debris, but you guys reckon it lasted for 2 hours so it couldn't have been that.

We saw rocks up to 100mm dia picked up in road drains and moved 20 m or so, crazy volumes of water!

possibly more to come too, there is some more darkness to the NW here

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:34

4pm radar suggests convergence i see

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Sun 01/10/2006 17:39

Greater Auckland area(close-up) as of about 5.15pm...

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:07

well they called it another mini tornado again on the news

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:14

C-Nimbus wrote:well they called it another mini tornado again on the news

Anyone know the email address of their news editors / copy writers?

Graeme wrote to TVNZ on their contact page wrote: "Mini tornado" - there is no such thing. A tornado either exists or it doesn't. They come in sizes from F0 through to F5. All are classed as a tornado. There is no mini size. Please stop using the term "mini tornado"!

Cheers,

G

http://corporate.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_detail ... 51,00.html

On a brighter note - it's got quite dark to the north-east, looks like more heavy weather rolling in quickly.

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

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

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 18:25

raining here and very windy. Which way are the fronts and things coming from? west or northwest?