Severe Thunderstorms, hail, tornado - South Island, November 18th

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Re: General November Weather

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Thunder...

edit to add: more thunder, and sky inky to southeast and south... 0_o
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Re: General November Weather

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Raining hard, and thunder seems to be more east and north of here now.
12.3°C.

! that was a window-rattling crash :) scarcely two seconds after the lightning.
Now hail...
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Re: General November Weather

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tornado wrote: Mon 18/11/2019 10:28 i see they have a risk for severe thunderstorms there in the eastern south island with a risk of small tornadoes.since that big dusty tornado touched down north of ashburton.
Correct. We were talking about that yesterday,It was near Fairton.
Looking very bleak to the north of here and I here some sfericals on the wireless. Looks thunderstormic around the Ashburton area.
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Re: General November Weather

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Best storm in years !
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Re: General November Weather

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No chance of anything this far north, blowing a strong NW, but the storm clouds to the south impressive.
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Re: General November Weather

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Hopeful in Amberley, sunny for most of the morning and the wind felt a bit easterly but I'm not sure about the latter. There was visible development to the south of here, north of the main line of storms.
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Re: General November Weather

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Starting to look tasty from Hagley Park. Wonder if I'll finish my run dry?
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Boom?
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Severe storm warned for Chch.
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Re: General November Weather

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Very fresh NE has sprung up to feed what looks to be a significant cell developing to the South and west
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Re: General November Weather

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Light hail in Wigram area, very very dark with heavy rain interspersed.
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Re: General November Weather

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Heavy hail and rain in the city at the moment
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We had a small twister next to my work here in waltham, only have to lift debris in a rotation up in the air and travel before the debris dropped again. Very stormy.
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A tornado just hit here in Waltham, damage to local businesses with parts of rooves being ripped off and thrown into the air!!
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Fantastic thunder in cathedral square
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Bradley wrote: Mon 18/11/2019 14:01 A tornado just hit here in Waltham, damage to local businesses with parts of rooves being ripped off and thrown into the air!!
did you get any pictures? wow.
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Bradley wrote: Mon 18/11/2019 14:01 A tornado just hit here in Waltham, damage to local businesses with parts of rooves being ripped off and thrown into the air!!
I saw this from talfourd pl here in Waltham
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Re: General November Weather

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Video uploading
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Re: General November Weather

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Sorry needs few minutes to transfer and convert.
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Re: General November Weather

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Came through past Ara, some staff and students saw it and got brief video. I however was on the other side of the building thinking it was a good gust front.
Edit: a large branch punched completely through a roof at work.
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There you go, ready to view now.

https://vimeo.com/373804838
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Re: General November Weather

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We need a separate topic for this.
Nothing to report from Geraldine, just a lot of puffy Cu around with a NE breeze.
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Growler wrote: Mon 18/11/2019 14:13 There you go, ready to view now.

https://vimeo.com/user105287254/review/ ... 2827773db2
it still doesnt work :( but ah well. excactly one year from today there was that north ashburghton tornado. and 1 year later another tornado so odd


edit: it works now. thanks gosh there was quite a bit of debris in that twister.
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Re: General November Weather

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Injury reported in Battersea st in Sydenham

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https://youtu.be/wUYr1ZPyRJs

My work in background behind the dust.
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