Hey Jimmy. I was on that storm between Nowra and Berry.
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pingtang100/_MG_0714edit.jpg)
This was taken a few minutes after 4:00pm , 5kms north of Nowra looking west. There is a rain free base, nothing special or anything,but some cgs were hitting in that area occasionally. At this stage a few cgs actually hit 500metres behind my back with great thunder.This had me thinking the storm was trying to become organised,as there were no cgs 10minutes earlier, just frequent anvil crawlers. Some cgs actually looked quite strong.The heavy rain hit,so I packed up and headed northeast towards Berry. I struggled to get ahead the rain, in fact the storm was becoming embedded and scud was flying in from the southeast obscuring any structure. It was still raining lightly in Berry,when I encountered a nice flang whilst driving. I was staring straight into it,( it hit just behind a tree in a paddock) but unfortunately didnt capture it on video. At first I thought it was 50metres away, but im now thinking 100metres . Close lightning is often slightly further away than your first thoughts,I notice this all the time on my videos. Great thunder from it though,instant loud boom! I continued to Kiama, catching up to the main precip core again ,it looked very unspectacular and the AM was becoming infrequent. I gave up ,and that was it.
See :
128km Radar Loop for Canberra, 23:00 07/04/2010 to 08:00 08/04/2010 UTC
![](http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radar-thumb/IDR403/2010-04-07-23/2010-04-08-08/300.s.png)
Heres the Canberra radar. Maybe a slight left move at 4pm? The storm decays rapidly as you mentioned.
PS- My brother said his workmates reported hail 10kms SW of Nowra.