Cool Australian Tornado with video/still

[Bill Hark]

Check out this tornado (reminds me of a Colorado landspout) from the Lara area of Australia. There is a nice photo and article along with a short YouTube video.
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2007/05/15/3699_news.html

Bill Hark
Eastern Fury: Storms of Eastern of United States
http://www.harkphoto.com/EasternFury.html
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[Michael O'Keeffe]

I find it interesting how they describe the tornado as a huge tornado. Here in America we wouldn't even classify that as a supercelluar tornado, just a landspout though it is quite a spectical.

 

[Terry Tyler]

converging outflow boundarys?

 

[Brian Stertz]

Yeah true enough Michael...those dust sheath spouts are dime a dozen in Colorado during the good High Plains summers. Instead of massive...I would have used the terms long or stretched out to it's limits. Now the Greensburg family of tornadoes...those were massive !!!

 

[Paul Stofer]

man.. video made me nauseous...

 

[James Harris]

I'm in Sydney so wasnt there to see it myself, however looking at the sounding I highly doubt it was a supercellular tornado, rather a landspout associated with maybe a convergence line and some pretty nice lapse rates down low. Another couple of shots of it are below

http://gstormc.com/shanee/displayimage.php?pos=-726

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2007/05/14/6twist1.jpg

(Above photo from www.australiansevereweather.com weather forum via Geelong Advertiser)

James
www.sydneystormchasers.com