More Thunderstorms & possible Tornadoes? - May 18

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Wed 18/05/2016 10:56

Good amount of of Thunder and some good flashes of Lightning for the last hour in Raglan.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 10:59

I might head to Waiuku..it might just catch the Tail end charlie

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 11:18

Chasing

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 18/05/2016 11:24

At Mercer heading south.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Wed 18/05/2016 11:38

Next line coming in behind the first, another round of storms, nice

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 11:50

View from Kariotahi
Photo too large...later

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 12:03

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 12:46

Had a massive lightning strike right beside the road just west of Waiuku.one second to the thunder
As I was driving along
Stoked
hail too

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 12:48

Coming ashore..spitting bolts

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 18/05/2016 12:51

Brian the radar looks impressive as it rolled over your place.

Heaps of heavy rain and thunder here today. My home hasn't caught half the rain we have had at the airport.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 18/05/2016 12:52

Lots of thunder here. West of Bombay.

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Wed 18/05/2016 12:52

Manukau heads obs wrote:Had a massive lightning strike right beside the road just west of Waiuku.one second to the thunder As I was driving along - Stoked - hail too

That sure sounds like a lot of fun there Brian $\:D/$

littleheaven · Unread post by **littleheaven** » Wed 18/05/2016 13:00

Pretty sure I just heard thunder here in Glenfield. On my way out to the accountant shortly, so I'll be keeping my eyes open for action.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 18/05/2016 13:59

Chased the frontal line in north Waikato back to South Auckland, had a thunderstorm Bombay to Papakura.

photo of developing cell over north Waikato

Lunar2 · Unread post by **Lunar2** » Wed 18/05/2016 14:38

Tornado in Te Kaha??

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 18/05/2016 15:37

Nice photos there Brian. The cb generated quite a bit of lightning over South Auckland (largely IC i think) before it weakened and moved away to the east.

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Wed 18/05/2016 16:00

Yes great photos Brian.

A small amount of lightning, some very heavy showers and small hail is all we encountered in the northern Manawatu.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 18/05/2016 16:12

I see reports of wind damage just north of Waiuku (Waipipi..not far north of where I was chasing)
(trees uprooted, structural damage)

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 18/05/2016 19:39

I see Tim had 33mm today and I had 15mm. Not sure what the airport got but it would have been 30mm at least. I was at mystery creek right next door and it was a flood.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Wed 18/05/2016 20:22

MS have 15.4mm for Hamilton Aero today.

And 10.4mm for Akld Aero... compared to a fairly uneventful 2.0mm here.

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Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Wed 18/05/2016 21:26

Nev wrote:Sent by my Nylex-1000 using Pitter-a-patter

Love it!

shovelopikis · Unread post by **shovelopikis** » Wed 18/05/2016 21:32

We had the front hit here in south taranaki at 8am frontal system provided horizontal downpours and lots of bangs and flashes, and then throughout the day have had countless storms roll in constantly since the first front with Sun in between.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 18/05/2016 21:53

shovelopikis wrote:We had the front hit here in south taranaki at 8am frontal system provided horizontal downpours and lots of bangs and flashes, and then throughout the day have had countless storms roll in constantly since the first front with Sun in between.

I wish we had that weather here

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Wed 18/05/2016 22:18

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
shovelopikis wrote:We had the front hit here in south taranaki at 8am frontal system provided horizontal downpours and lots of bangs and flashes, and then throughout the day have had countless storms roll in constantly since the first front with Sun in between.
I wish we had that weather here

Lots of haircuts and Johnny walkers between thunderstorms on days like that to John

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 19/05/2016 05:50

Nev wrote:MS have 15.4mm for Hamilton

Wow that goes to show that the difference between there and mystery creek where I was was quite significant. We had rivers of water where the drains couldn't keep up. I would have expected 15mm in a 20mins fell and another 15mm in the half hour after that. It truly was torrential rain. I would think that is more like what Tim got.

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