General June Weather

[spwill]

Isolated thunderstorms occurring north Auckland/Northland currently.

[Cyclone Tracy]

Mangawhai rotation touchdown

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeal ... VcBOfet-jM

[Cyclone Tracy]

[mikestormchaser]

Thats some good rotation there. Shear must of been quite good. Doesnt look supercellular though.

[Awhituobs]

Great footage
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/arti ... ign=nzh_fb

[TonyT]

Great to see it reported as a "full on" tornado, not a sub-optimally small type. No room for reporter-minimisation in that quote!

[NZstorm]

Multivortex tornado there. Did the Auckland radar pick up a couplet? Would have been short lived and the radar takes 6 minutes to do a scan I think.

[spwill]

Some nice footage.
July 2011 there was a tornado near Waipu Cove just up the road from Mangawhai Heads, probably a similar weather pattern.

[spwill]

A line of heavy showers/thunderstorms near Whangarei, MetService showing 27.4mm there.

[Awhituobs]

Huge amount of lightning on that heavy shower line in northland....and its heading south

[NZstorm]

Yes a heap of lightning up there last hr.

[Tornado Tim]

Huge amount of lightning on that heavy shower line in northland....and its heading south

Was looking at the Himawari and Lightning loops, that storm is dropping heaps of positive CG's

[Awhituobs]

We had a clap of thunder...must have been an anvil crawler

[Cyclone Tracy]

Thunder! Locally the wind is swinging from east to north east, a sweet spot is appearing in the gulf to my NE.

[David]

Thunder! Locally the wind is swinging from east to north east, a sweet spot is appearing in the gulf to my NE.

Thought I heard something. Just 1mm rain here today.

[spwill]

Heavy rain here now, a small amount of distant lightning observed this evening .

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Lovely day here on the West Coast north of Greymouth. Staying in Reefton. Mild day at Westport and the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks.
Sadly, the Tasman Sea was rather calm so the blow-holes didn't do much at high tide.
Tornado, you would be pleased with the thunderstorms up your area today, plus the bonus of a tornado somewhere up there.
Apparently, there has just been clagg in the Canterbury area since we left so we are glad to be over here.

[Awhituobs]

torrential rain here last night
another 50mm, 188 for the month now
over 3mm per minute was my maximum peak intensity , where we had 12mm in 27 minutes
very big drops...very loud on the roof!

[spwill]

Grey Lynn 13.2mm, I see MetService Waitakere got 54.4mm

[NZstorm]

I got 17mm here overnight. Thunder heard 11.30pm.

The 12Z Whenuapai sounding shows a strongly curved hodograph with 0-3km helicty at -211. So that trough line certainly had the shear for tornadoes.

[Awhituobs]

and I see another line of heavy rain heading my way

[Cyclone Tracy]

Just missed a heavy line last night but managed another 12mm. The low's centre moved about 100km north west overnight in the Tasman. Some decent moisture plumes currently appearing on the water vapour image near the boundaries of the incoming surface troughs for today. Some more good radar watching coming up.

[David]

16mm here overnight. June has now reached average rainfall, first month to do so since last October.

[tornado]

havnt heard thunder. but had 18mm of rain. i see there was a tornado north of auckland yesterday. wow. and i just checked the storm outlook for this morning and it says more small tornadoes possible.

[NZstorm]

Current temp 15C and dp14C, showers. Hopefully some warming today will add the zest for a thunderstorm.