Nth Island Thunderstorms - Aug 28 - Sep 01

[spwill]

Another photo of storm cloud.

[Awhituobs]

the shower tops looked great from here
18c here today
I see ricky got 12mm in a very short space time!

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

There was a H2O-Spout (Waterspout) noticed and recorded off the coast of Napier according to TVOne news.

[Simon Culling]

Came across this picture while searching for UK events. Picture appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th August and near to Havelock/Hastings.

Nice FC.

https://twitter.com/majicDave/status/14 ... 8661979138

[Awhituobs]

I saw a real good video on the news sights last night that someone took
I cant find it now
it looked like it lasted a relatively long time

[Nev]

Bit more info and video about that 'funnel clound' near Hastings:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weathe ... a-downpour

Hawke’s Bay resident Emma Waerea spotted it out her window at about 4:47pm, and it disappeared just after 5pm.

She guessed it was meeting the ground somewhere close to Pakipaki in Hastings, and Metservice forecaster Gerard Bellam confirmed that estimate. ...

The funnel cloud (the term for a tornado-shaped cloud which does not touch the ground) formed over south-west part of Hastings, near Raukawa and Pakipaki around 5pm, Bellam said.

Below is also a screen-grab from 1 News at Six, taken by Paul Smith of Pakipaki, Hastings around 5pm, which I think Dan the Weatherman labelled as a 'waterspout near Napier'...?

[Nev]

Came across this picture while searching for UK events. Picture appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th August and near to Havelock/Hastings.

Nice FC.

https://twitter.com/majicDave/status/14 ... 8661979138

Well spotted. I see he actually posted 3 pics. The first shows more of the cloud tops:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E97sPEOVcAU ... name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E97tFzGVUAM ... name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E97uPdVVkAI ... name=large

[Nev]

Sounds and looks like it probably did touch down. A few more pics in the NZ Herald...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/i-didnt-w ... 3KAYN54KU/

[Cyclone Tracy]

Wind is squeezing between ENE and E locally. 16c with a 12c DP. Radar is getting busy to my NE near Great Barrier.

EC's 18Z has given a 40 to 50mm upgrade from the 12Z run for the next 36 hours locally.

[spwill]

Radar has been looking active Kaipara area, isolated thunderstorms up that way.

[Awhituobs]

There is some lighting strikes on that rain band

[Awhituobs]

Its getting more lightning active
I might get a show

[David]

Just 0.2mm here today. Perhaps tonight will bring something out this way? Looks all west at the moment.

[spwill]

Disant lightning observed

[GraemeWi]

Quite a bit of lightning out to our North-West and West, mostly in cloud, it seems to have slowed a bit in the last couple of minutes

[Cyclone Tracy]

Back building north of Auckland in the squeeze zone, winds still ENE to E locally. The cut off low in the Tasman is not budging, an interesting night ahead.

[David]

Thunder heard here

[spwill]

Over head thunder here just now

[spwill]

More thunder overhead, the lghtning is in the cloud just west of here

[Cyclone Tracy]

Thunder here to. Those converging cells around Kaipara harbour should be warned by MS.

[David]

Great lightning and loud booming thunder

[RODALCO]

Couple of very bright lightning strikes and loud thunders over the last 5 minutes.


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[ricky]

One was a great skytower CG

[Awhituobs]

strikes
(we are getting anvil crawlers here )

[Orion]

Enjoy!