G'day James,
thanks for the reply. It made me do some research.
I refer to the Storms as "THE GAP" because they are now famous.
I don't live far from The Gap, Arana Hills, Albany creek, Eatons Hill and Brendale. The path of the storm. The following Monday morning I took my wife for a drive and saw the devastation. The Jinker track looked like a Nuc had hit it. Thousands of trees and branches littered the street and surrounds. The trees had been twisted and snapped of halfway up the trunk. It followed a narrow path through there.
Down in Brendale, it hit Northside trusses and ripped of the awnings down one side, skipped a few sheds, twisted signs and the hit about 500 m up the road at torque ford, were we had to drop the car off, and sucked out there service doors. Just looked like the damage of a twister.
But some of the storms of that day and later the following days did form into tornadoes as noted by the
CYCLONE TESTING STATION
School of Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville
28 Nov 2008
Investigation of performance of housing, in Brisbane, following the storms
of 16 and 19 November 2008
Storm report.
The 19 November storm damage indicated a low category
tornado, (that one hit Paddington).
But the answer you gave made look up some more information and I found the above mentioned report. Hopefully they do a thorough investigation and design report.
The documentary was in the late 1990's and I think it was The Savage Planet series, but also, since looking up further information that fact about 10% of tornadoes in QLD may be a sensationalism on the part of the documentary, but it was enough to get me interested.
So thanks for your reply, it makes you dig deeper and find interesting facts.
Cheers