Possible tornadoes in New Plymouth & Nelson - Oct 26

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Possible tornadoes in New Plymouth & Nelson - Oct 26

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I see report on Radio of possible tornado damage in New Plymouth 2am?
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Report from Taranaki Daily News about that possible tornado this morning.
(note that it's the ignorant reporter that uses the 'm' word, not the witnesses)

''Mini-tornado' lifts roofs and smashes windows in central New Plymouth' - Stuff

Also, here's Blitzortung's CG's for the 12 hours to 8am this morn…
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Another possible tornado report in Appleby, west Nelson, also around 2am this morn….

'Tornado hits Appleby nursery' - Nelson Live
'High winds rock Nelson nursery as unstable weather continues' - Nelson Mail (Stuff)
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Nev wrote:Another possible tornado report in Appleby, west Nelson, also around 2am this morn….

'Tornado hits Appleby nursery' - Nelson Live
'High winds rock Nelson nursery as unstable weather continues' - Nelson Mail (Stuff)
Here's the rain radar for that time.

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Nev wrote:Report from Taranaki Daily News about that possible tornado this morning.
(note that it's the ignorant reporter that uses the 'm' word, not the witnesses)

''Mini-tornado' lifts roofs and smashes windows in central New Plymouth' - Stuff

Also, here's Blitzortung's CG's for the 12 hours to 8am this morn…
Blitzortung NZ - Oct 25-26, 8pm to 8am.png
On the rain radar there's a little bit of purple over New Plymouth... wish the high quality radars were publicly available then we could understand what happened better :|

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No tornados in Canterbury today, sadly. [-X
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Nev wrote:Report from Taranaki Daily News about that possible tornado this morning.
(note that it's the ignorant reporter that uses the 'm' word, not the witnesses)

''Mini-tornado' lifts roofs and smashes windows in central New Plymouth' - Stuff

Also, here's Blitzortung's CG's for the 12 hours to 8am this morn…
Blitzortung NZ - Oct 25-26, 8pm to 8am.png
I asked Metservice on their FB page for a 60km radar image of it and they posted this.
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^ Wow, that was nice of MetService. Great detail in that cell. I wonder if the 1222z (1:22am) image might be pushing our luck :smile: , as it would probably show the cell centred right over New Plymouth...
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Nev wrote:^ Wow, that was nice of MetService. Great detail in that cell. I wonder if the 1222z (1:22am) image might be pushing our luck :smile: , as it would probably show the cell centred right over New Plymouth...
Yeah the best chance to get images like these is to ask them on their FB page.
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Re: Possible tornadoes in New Plymouth & Nelson - Oct 26

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12Z sounding off the gfs, about the time the waterspout/tornado made landfall. I have had to tweak up the moisture as the gfs often under reads moisture in cold set ups.

I have coloured in the CAPE for those that don't know skew t. The CAPE is a product of lifting a parcel (temp/dewpoint) from the surface.
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