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Just heard thunder in the gulf

David wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 14:24 Just heard thunder in the gulf

Yes, 4 rumbles just now (thought the first one was an aircraft)…

Photo of the line in the Gulf earlier

looks like another line trying to form now.

Waiuku had a brief small tornado at 1pm
I was there. Most amazing updrafts I have seen and I spotted a funnel cloud lowering that was very brief and then have just now surveyed a narrow damage path...tiles off roofs garden fences blown down...in opposite directions...large trees having half their side snapped off.was really exciting

Photos
Those fences are blown down in opposite directions opposite sides of the road and offset from each other

https://youtu.be/TL6oiBAP9zk
Video just before it occured...it occured just off to the left of the area being filmed

Caught that gulf line as it cranked up and launched off the North Shore towards Rangitoto.

Other reports of trees blown down in southern end of Waiuku and power out south of Waiuku

Just had a torrential downpour here. You could hear it coming. 5mm fell in 5 minutes. No hail though, or thunder.
Photos later.

Also reports of a tornado in Te Awamutu around 3pm?

Several Te Awamutu locals have now reported seeing a tornado rip through the area, with some saying it toppled trees, fences and powerlines.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeal ... oding.html

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 16:30 Just had a torrential downpour here. You could hear it coming. 5mm fell in 5 minutes. No hail though, or thunder.
Photos later.

Lucky, not a drop of rain all day here, wondering if we will get any at all.

Richard wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 17:01

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 16:30 Just had a torrential downpour here. You could hear it coming. 5mm fell in 5 minutes. No hail though, or thunder.
Photos later.

Lucky, not a drop of rain all day here, wondering if we will get any at all.

It absolutely pist down here around 4:20pm. You could hear it coming. Never seen rain like it. Definitely a 'downpour' like what you see in the weather forecasts for the North Island. Deafening on the conservatory roof. Sadly some of our peony roses got damaged.
Interesting sky with it.
Not very good forecasting initially from MS when they forecasted a day of drizzle and low cloud or patchy rain

Awhituobs wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 15:57 Photos
Those fences are blown down in opposite directions opposite sides of the road and offset from each other

Interesting definitely ef0 damage. The thunderstorm that came over my house I saw a brief funnel cloud but as I was about to take a photo it dissipated. Was good cg lightning though

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 17:14

Richard wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 17:01
Lucky, not a drop of rain all day here, wondering if we will get any at all.

It absolutely pist down here around 4:20pm. You could hear it coming. Never seen rain like it. Definitely a 'downpour' like what you see in the weather forecasts for the North Island. Deafening on the conservatory roof. Sadly some of our peony roses got damaged.
Interesting sky with it.
Not very good forecasting initially from MS when they forecasted a day of drizzle and low or patchy rain

No not a good day at the office.

Nev wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 16:45 Also reports of a tornado in Te Awamutu around 3pm?

Several Te Awamutu locals have now reported seeing a tornado rip through the area, with some saying it toppled trees, fences and powerlines.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeal ... oding.html

I just read that on Twitter it wasn't a tornado but flooding damage. The guy who posted said he rushed it and wrote tornado not flooding.

^ Maybe, but Newshub said 'several Te Awamutu locals have now reported seeing a tornado rip through the area, with some saying it toppled trees, fences and power lines'.

I have seen photos of tree damage in Te Awamatu
I talked to a guy repairing his roof in Waiuku and he said he talked to someone who was walking along who saw a funnel

Any reports of hail? Some of the forecast soundings looked pretty conducive for it, large hail even - high CAPE, relatively dry aloft and good bulk shear of 45 to 60 knots...

Willoughby wrote: ↑Wed 25/11/2020 19:01 Any reports of hail? Some of the forecast soundings looked pretty conducive for it, large hail even - high CAPE, relatively dry aloft and good bulk shear of 45 to 60 knots...

Interesting there, Will.
We had a torrential rain shower here around 4:15pm local time. Un forecasted off course.
Here's a photo I took looking over our back garden as it fell down.
You can tell by the streaks of rain, it was a heavy fall,

Yes seen photos of big hail stones Te Awamatu

FB photos

Hail in Te Rore covered the lawn according to Parents 15 min Nw Te Awamutu

Apparently a car's windscreen was seen to be smashed by a large hail stone in Te Awamutu, according to a local Facebook user in the Newshub report above.

this photo from Waiuku shows that the tree was twisted and then snapped...check out at the base
and the trees around it are untouched...flowers in place even

ps we got to 23.3c at 4pm today..as was very sunny at the time.....amazing