Severe Weather - N/Island - Early July

[Manukau heads obs]

NNW wind arrived here now...with a bang...gusting to 30 knots

[Vertigo]

i see lots of towers shooting up, producing lenticular clouds above them. must be some fairly nice updrafts around.

[Manukau heads obs]

rain arrived here now
very black to my west...

[Manukau heads obs]

intense rain!
4.6mm here now
big temperature drop, now only 12.1oC here
big barometer rise too

[Razor]

Tornado report in The Naki...Stuff.co.nz report

[Peter]

Well that was "short & sweet" here - not much more than a heavy rain shower with a wind change - much cooler now.

[Michael]

A flash of lightning just now here.

[David]

so much for strong winds and thunderstorms?
2 days in a row now with moderate breezes and the just odd shower

[Michael]

We dont really get a lot of wind from the NW direction,Even last week the strongest gust wernt sustained because it was W,it will be High when its SW.

so much for strong winds and thunderstorms?
2 days in a row now with moderate breezes and the just odd shower

[Manukau heads obs]

a decent 5mm we got from the passage of front

[TonyT]

i see lots of towers shooting up, producing lenticular clouds above them. must be some fairly nice updrafts around.

Probably pileus or cap clouds - different formation process to lenticulars, although they look very similar.

[David]

Brief downpour just went through here with a few hailstones about 6mm or so in diameter.

[Manukau heads obs]

the waitakere ranges often produce lenticular clouds downstream in NW winds

[Razor]

stuff.co.nz report second tornado today, in Glendowie. houses damaged

[Razor]

This forum makes me laugh, a million pages on snow that may or may not occur in ChCh....

yet 2 tornadies in the North Island yesterday that ACTUALLY HAPPENED yet no one appears to be interested!

[Peter]

Probably because they were both pretty minor, and in Auckland probably straight-line winds rather than a "real" tornado?

[Razor]

Still, at least they actually happened huh>

[Willoughby]

Still, at least they actually happened huh>

Of course we're interested, doesn't mean we have to comment on it.

Beautiful fine day here and 9C at the moment with light northery winds... better make the most of it - front coming tonight and some cold days on the way!

[Peter]

Still, at least they actually happened huh>

Yeah - first thing I did was check out the news stories - but not really much of substance to comment on - the Auckland report happened well after the major instability from the front had passed by - given the conditions at the time, I suspect that it wasn't a tornado as such, but squally winds lifting roof tiles.

[Vertigo]

plus id guess most of us are a but burnt out on the 8 strait days of thunderstorms and heavy rain we just had! a single tornado just makes us think "meh..."

[TonyT]

plus id guess most of us are a but burnt out on the 8 strait days of thunderstorms and heavy rain we just had! a single tornado just makes us think "meh..."

Red card!

[Willoughby]

Picking up strikes up now from north of Cape Farewell.

[Manukau heads obs]

there has been some photos of the damage posted on the other nz weather forum
looks like straight line winds that have come down a hill side....the roof damage is on the leeward side of those winds...and the tree branches that got borken off are all blown out into the soccer field at the bottom of the hill in the same direction...

[TonyT]

there has been some photos of the damage posted on the other nz weather forum
looks like straight line winds that have come down a hill side....the roof damage is on the leeward side of those winds...and the tree branches that got borken off are all blown out into the soccer field at the bottom of the hill in the same direction...

Classic "mini-tornado"!

(ie it wasnt one).

[Willoughby]

Thunderstorm now going through the forgotten world highway region east of Stratford.

Some cold-looking Cb's seen coming inwards here soon with the front.