Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

dogmelon · Unread post by **dogmelon** » Thu 28/01/2010 18:23

What a protracted period of set-your-clock-to thunderstorms. I wonder if it could ever be matched again?

David · Unread post by **David** » Thu 28/01/2010 18:26

Here's some stills from my little clips of the storm over the Auckland area today...not the best quality though...

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 18:29

Hail coming down heavy rain

dan · Unread post by **dan** » Thu 28/01/2010 18:32

Nice lightning! Thunder becoming more frequent. The anvil is covering us now and it is super dark to the south. Very visually spectacular unfortunately no camera tonight

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:07

Storm Heading NW across Te Awamutu

dan · Unread post by **dan** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:10

check out the white on the radar!! heading this way

dogmelon · Unread post by **dogmelon** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:11

Have all those storms suddenly weakened? The warnings have gone.

Vertigo · Unread post by **Vertigo** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:21

no, i dont think so, the cloud tops are extremely cold, and precip is getting more intense.

edit: at least in one part of the storm.

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:21

Temp went from 34.1 at 1710 to 17.7 now

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:30

17mm of rain in under 30mins. I wont have to water the garden for a few days

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:33

Tornado Tim wrote:A article is coming out in the Waikato Times with my opinions of the storms etc so check it out if you can, i have sent them some pics of the storms so hopefully they will be in there, they were more interested in the lightning but i think the structure of the storm was more important.

Must be this story ?, which includes a speculative tornado report near Ohakune yesterday...

'Clean-up follows downpour' - Waikato Times
Last updated 12:20 28/01/2010

Homes flooded, roofs gave way and spouting blocked as massive lightning strikes hit the Waikato during the region's third consecutive night of spectacular storms yesterday.

There were also reports of a tornado near Ohakune which firefighters believed ripped the roof off a house near Tangiwai at 6.45pm yesterday...

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:36

Oh well, I basically bust again today.

Maybe I should start again with the old camera

Weetbicks · Unread post by **Weetbicks** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:36

The 7pm rain radar from metservice is showing a pretty large white area in the core of the cell near Hamilton, that thing must be putting out some strong stuff!

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:40

Was quite a ride here for a while

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:51

Lightning above

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Thu 28/01/2010 19:52

Fantastic! Best outbreak of storms for a long time with a bit of everything thrown in for good measure.
I love days like these

Perhaps it can hold on a touch longer for another lightshow this evening, just to the NE of the airport it looks like something is trying to get going.. nice solid crisp updraft going on

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:06

Another cell forming to the SE

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:22

Justout wrote:Another cell forming to the SE

Unfortunantly i think that storm has died.
We went to chase the storm nearing Parongia and boy oh boy there was rotation!
No funnel cloud byt the clouds were spinning, will post a youtube clip soon.

dan · Unread post by **dan** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:26

I chased that storm by heading out towards Raglan and ended up right in the middle of it. Big shelf cloud and epic cloud to ground forked lightning, even a few that hit the ground a couple of hundred metres away!! Most amazing thing I've ever seen. Got out of there as I felt I'd pushed my luck far enough.

Justout · Unread post by **Justout** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:30

Tornado Tim wrote:
Justout wrote:Another cell forming to the SE
Unfortunantly i think that storm has died.
We went to chase the storm nearing Parongia and boy oh boy there was rotation!
No funnel cloud byt the clouds were spinning, will post a youtube clip soon.

Your right it's collapsing.
Noticed the clouds spinning as well.

dogmelon · Unread post by **dogmelon** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:41

I wonder how the people who live in houses under a storm like the one you describe feel Dan. I spose the have to pray that their house doesn't catch on fire. Thanks for the reports people, it has been interesting.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:53

Tim and i as he said went for a chase. caught lots of torrential rain, some strong straight line winds, rotation in the updraft. im not talking a little bit either. the entire rain free base was spinning like a top. we also got some marble sized hail. all in all a fantastic 2 hour chase.

Weetbicks · Unread post by **Weetbicks** » Thu 28/01/2010 20:57

The storms sound very similar to those in the states during tornado season, I wonder what the lacking ingredient was for these ones to form? Lack of shear? Does anyone know?

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 28/01/2010 21:27

oh kool, when i flick through the photos you can see the rotation. i might try and make a 3 sec video out of them for all to see tomorrow but im sure Tims video should show us.

bed time. too many late nights and early mornings have compounded to make me super tired.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 28/01/2010 21:31

I see that Waikato storm has weakened very quickly, an early finish today, still a small amount of activity showing up near Taupo.

Excellent reports /photos on todays storms, dont need to post any of my photos.

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