Thunderstorms, Upper NI, Sept 28th-30th

Vertigo · Unread post by **Vertigo** » Tue 29/09/2009 22:08

it seems like the hook echo has lost its strength as it nears the coast.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 29/09/2009 22:16

More activity out to the west but I am sure it wont match what we saw here earlier this evening.
Photo, Lightning over eastern parts of Auckland

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 29/09/2009 22:19

Thats a good shot spwill. Thats the cb tops at the top of the pic. Cool.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Tue 29/09/2009 22:40

Another lot of lightning active Cbs moving in West of Northland now..
What a great grandstand view of the earlier thunderstorms from here on the roof in Grey Lynn, in a warm light breeze under clearing sky while almost continuous lightning ran from horizon to horizon only a few km to the east!

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Tue 29/09/2009 23:04

Great photo's guys

, looks like the classic thunderstorms for up north instead of the more common embedded ones.
Its times like these i think another tornado has touched down somewhere, definatly as waterspouts offshore i would imagine looking at those radars.

Philip Duncan · Unread post by **Philip Duncan** » Tue 29/09/2009 23:22

21 amazing pics here everone: http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/y ... r-auckland

Thanks to those on the forum who sent them in...btw, managed to promote the forum in a press release today

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Tue 29/09/2009 23:45

weak storm to my north west at the moment. seeing the odd flash and low frequency distant rumble.

scrap that thought. Just saw a doozy anvil crawler streak across the sky. so not weak by any means

DT-NZ · Unread post by **DT-NZ** » Wed 30/09/2009 00:00

evening or should i say almost morning again *overtired yawn* - well, the wind woke me... it was nice and quiet when i went to sleep this evening... now... there's been some low distant rumbles out over the pacific... and ic flashes... wind is coming in from the NW...

DT-NZ · Unread post by **DT-NZ** » Wed 30/09/2009 00:04

weird is all i can say... good morning... going to rest - hopefully *weary yawn*

DT-NZ · Unread post by **DT-NZ** » Wed 30/09/2009 00:07

sorry, i dont mean to over post on the forum... but, its just really, strange weather, odd...

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 30/09/2009 01:40

Large concentration of strikes over the last two hours around the Eastern Bay of Plenty from about Whakatane to Hawai and into the ranges.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 30/09/2009 05:19

great shot that last one you posted spwill!
we had a great display of Cloud to ground lightning over the coastal hills here around 11pm ish

5:20am here and woken by a gale Nwer

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 30/09/2009 06:40

I never heard any thunder at all last night. Lots of distant spherics heard on AM radio, but otherwise it was a bust for me.

I'm pleased others had a great night and hope it wasn't a case of me being so bone tired I slept through something great.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 30/09/2009 08:09

We'll have to see what happens today regards convection but the central North Island looks the high risk region for some diurnally driven afternoon thunderstorms/small hail.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 30/09/2009 09:03

some nice CB's around here this morning and beefy showers

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 30/09/2009 09:23

Yes, the Cbs are more photogenic today than the previous couple of days.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 30/09/2009 09:35

I call it the Mt Albert look when it looked like that in that suburb all the time in the early 1990s,its in an unstable westerly flow.

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 30/09/2009 10:11

The downpour yesterday afternoon followed by that evening storm gave a daily total of 20mm here

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 30/09/2009 11:25

yet another juicy thunderstorm oulook by metservice thismorning for today. Will it be 3 thunder days in a row? Had torrential rain two days ago, awesome lightning and updafts yesterday. Hopefully today we can get some good sized hail maybe?

Manukau heads obs · Wed 30/09/2009 13:13

report from Bigbay here at the top of the peninsular of a water spout that came across from Cornwallis at 6:30pm yesterday

Cameo2 · Unread post by **Cameo2** » Wed 30/09/2009 14:54

whats wrong with the tracker?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 30/09/2009 15:51

A bit cool for thunder today over much of the NI so far with cloud cover, showers, westerlies. Storm on the east side of the Ranges over southern HB currently.

Vertigo · Unread post by **Vertigo** » Wed 30/09/2009 19:35

it seems like the Cb's dont have the height that they could have, too. sounding seems to confirm this.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 30/09/2009 20:55

A scattering of low CAPE cb's today producing squally showers for Auckland. Weather too cool across the North Island today to allow thunderstorms to develop. Also a lack of a boundary to push the air up.

Dean · Unread post by **Dean** » Wed 30/09/2009 20:57

Hi all, this thread was an interesting read, as this weather relates very much to what I experienced first hand, in the form of a mini tornado!!! I had to take cover as glass showered an area over 100m x 75m, and smashed house windows, destroyed a solar hot water system and damaged a crop of 5500 hydroponic tomato plants beyond recovery (luckily all was insured!). No one was hurt luckily.

Glass shards also pierced the roof's of 2 utility sheds (made of coloursteel) and the roof of a house. I thought I'd post an album of photos showing some of the damage done. This was in the Drury area. It occurred around 10.30am Monday morning:

About 2 kms down the road is Davies rd, and a property there with modern glasshouses suffered even worse damage:

Insane weather!!!

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