Tornado reported in Australia 20th January 2005

[Andrea Griffa]

Originally posted by Jimmy Deguara
Hi James and Dann,

Yes it is great that photographs were taken of this storm - I got my photographs done today actually from the LP supercell.

Here are some video stills from yesterday's supercell:

An HP supercell developed and moved through the Sydney suburbs dropping violent winds and very large hailstones let alone the very heavy rainfall. A possible weak tornado is being investigated.






David Croan has uploaded part of his video fo the event that you may find interesting:

www.thunderbolttours.com/movies/0202dc01.wmv

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

What a turbulence under the meso! By the way there's a little funnel in the first picture: maybe it was in contact with the ground.

 

[Jimmy Deguara]

Hi Andrea,

I would need to review the video to see if there were funnels near the perifery of the wall cloud as I noticed that funnel appearance when I posted. There was rotation in that area. There was substantial damage by this storm to trees and some houses and of course very large hail reported. It is David's video I find interesting from the different component of rotation.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara