Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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It almost looks like a Long Play Supercell.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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This is insane, constantly overlapping booms and crashes fotr the last 15 mins
now starting to hail
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Precipitation now, moving quickly along the east of here, good display of cloud to grounds and virga to the south east
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Some 20+mm hail here in Templeton but mostly 10-15mm.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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From out here in rangiora looking back at that cell I have to say its the biggest most impressive cell I have ever seen with the height and width of it unreal.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Skywatcher wrote:Some 20+mm hail here in Templeton but mostly 10-15mm.
Yeah! Got a few large one's here too ;)
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Raining here, sounds "wintry"... Oo-er at the hail pic above!
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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melja wrote:From out here in rangiora looking back at that cell I have to say its the biggest most impressive cell I have ever seen with the height and width of it unreal.
Would love to see a pic of this, from underneath it in Chch it's all action.
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That was a ripper of a storm. The updraft bit came overhead here in Hornby, I got a hail ranging from 10c to 50c piece size. The thunder was constasnt with lighting stikes and IC that looked great with one strike a close exploder.
What a beaut or a storm.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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More virga to the south again, and a few distant rumbles. Main cell to the north of here.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Yes big hail indeed! Continuous thunder and lightning occurred. Still randomly going off at the moment. Perhaps a 2nd little wave in an hour or so. Still an easterly here!
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Heavy rain / hail here now ,virga to the east and looking dark to the west.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Looks to be redeveloping inland to the west as it goes so might get some action here to.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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melja wrote:Looks to be redeveloping inland to the west as it goes so might get some action here to.
Just had a few big rumbles here and some good light flashes to the west \:D/
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Few huge rumbles followed by a good downpour. Lightening still coming from the west and northwest
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Plenty of lightning observed from here, had 20 minutes or so of heavy-ish rain with some partly melted hail. Managed to get one strike on video, will post later :)
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Noticed a lot of firing up of lighting activity all over inland Canterbury now ;)
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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I see Stephen has made the headlines…

'Storm brings hail, tornado to Canterbury' - Stuff
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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I wonder if metservice need to issue a new warning for the cells fast growing in behind and more inland, constant thunder to my west now and dark
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Large tornado hit south side of Amberly. Seen one house with it roof torn off and spread around. Witneased earlier tornado around Southbridge way (at a guess) followed the storm north then watched the Amberly tornado. Video to come later tonight
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Small tornado just east of Amberley township. I watched it develop for a while prior. Looked to be at its most active over the Leithfield area. Power currently out. Hail 20-25mm here near storm path. Didn't left long.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Saw a funnel briefly touch the ground just to the north of Burnham during the first storm, the clouds had a rotational look about them
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Most of the IC lightning was obscured in the first storm which mostly passed to the east but I saw at least half a dozen CGs, some were very bright and strobing. I only managed to get one on camera - pointing in the wrong direction or wiping the lens for the better ones :(
The second, smaller storm wasn't as active but was almost overhead with clearer ICs.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Was at Halswell New World when it hit - some hail pea sized. Heavy rain showers again travelling to BP, with temps down to 7C at Hilltop.
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Re: Widespread Storms, South Island 23/2/14

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Power back on now. Watched the tornado cloud develop well south of Amberley from the beach, I would guess it was Waikuku or inland from there. Cloud initially looked like a large dark grey sausage, but I was suspicious of, and when it got closer could see the rotation. It only took on the traditional funnel cloud shape when over the Leithfield area, and lost its structure after2-3 minutes. As it passed closest to me here (about 2-3km away) I could see light debris like plastic wrap etc circulating under the remains of the cloud. Went for a drive up Beach road and it looks to have passed over just north of Double Corner road, the roads there are green with leaves, and the hail in that small area (100-150m across) was noticeably thicker.

Hail stones were 15-20mm here, and 20-25mm in the target zone. My mothers house is barely 200m from the line the tornado took, and she thought her windows were going to blow in, but I think that was more from the noise of the horizontal hail hitting them, than the outright windspeed. Her garden is not too badly shredded, I would estimate the wind speeds as 30-40 knots if it was damage from a conventional wind storm. Shame I didnt get any photos...
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