From                                           Subject
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001 disarm at braenet.com.au                          January 30 1999 chase report and photo's.
002 "bonzo" [bonzo at mpx.com.au]                     cyclones
003 Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]                   (no subject)
004 "Terry Bishop" [dymprog at mpx.com.au]            Orange Weather
005 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     cyclones + TC Warning
006 Chris Maunder [cmaunder at dynamite.com.au]       Canberra Weather
007 Ben Quinn [Bodie19 at eisa.net.au]                Storm Surge
008 "Chris Gribben" [chrisgribben at hotmail.com]     Static on Vic radio!
009 "Patrick Tobin" [pdtobin at hotmail.com]          Taking the plunge in SA
010 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     Storm Surge + TC Rona
011 Ben Quinn [Bodie19 at eisa.net.au]                TC Rona
012 Michael Bath [mbath at ozemail.com.au]       Parramatta ASWA Meeting 13/02/99 - Agenda
013 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     TC Rona
014 "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]   January 30 1999 chase report and photo's.
015 "Manda .  M" [manda at tpgi.com.au]               TC Rona  update from Bowen.
016 "Terry Bishop" [dymprog at mpx.com.au]            Orange Weather
017 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au]          Perhaps some of you would like to view this link on occasion
018 Ben Quinn [Bodie19 at eisa.net.au]                Perhaps some of you would like to view this link on occasion
019 Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au]          Perhaps some of you would like to view this link
020 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     TC Rona
021 Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]     TC Ella forms

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Its finally up, !!!

http://www.braenet.com.au/~disarm/30Jan99.html

Thats the address, Jimmy and Michael B, if there are any corrections to be
made please tell me ! :) thanks guys

Matt Smith comming to you live from "Sydneys Stormless Summer".

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From: "bonzo" [bonzo at mpx.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: cyclones
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 99 18:52:48 PST
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hi Manda how are you going, well that low did develope, tropical cyclone
Rona, its only a cat one at the moment but it is intensifying slowly and
heading our way.
could be interesting times ahead, its raining steady at the moment and
the wind has just started to pick up.
well that,s all from me, keep in touch Rob.

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:27:36 -0800
From: Lindsay [writer at lisp.com.au]
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Keith Barnett wrote:
> 
> Thanks Keith Barnett and Laurier for the SOI info.

Cheers,

Lindsay

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From: "Terry Bishop" [dymprog at mpx.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Orange Weather
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Hi All,

	Another blue sky with a small amount  cir. cu and cu.
At Orange 09.25am ESDT 18C, 1018, 40%, NNE 5-10 knots.

	Could this be a new cloud type?? The announcer on the cricket yesterday
afternoon said that the radar showed "a bit of light heavy cloud." If you
already don't have it then you had better add that one to your cloud
encyclopaedias folks.

 Terry.

mailto:dymprog at mpx.com.au

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:11:26 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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TOP PRIORITY
TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 3
Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane
For 0800 EST on Thursday the 11th of February 1999

A Tropical Cyclone Warning has been declared for coastal and island
communities between Cape Tribulation and Cardwell.

The Tropical Cyclone Watch has been extended north to Cooktown and south
to
Bowen.

Details of Tropical Cyclone Rona, Category 1, for 8am
Central Pressure   : 990 Hectopascals
Location of Centre : within 30 kilometres of
                     latitude 16.3 degrees south
                     longitude 148.2 degrees east
                     about 270 kilometres east-northeast of Cairns
Recent Movement    : WSW at 12 kilometres per hour
         
Maximum wind gusts : 100 kilometres per hour slowly intensifying 


People between Cape Tribulation and Cardwell should take precautions and
listen
to the next advice.


The next advice will be issued at 11am.



bonzo wrote:
> 
> hi Manda how are you going, well that low did develope, tropical cyclone Rona, its only a cat one at the moment but it is intensifying slowly and heading our way.
> could be interesting times ahead, its raining steady at the moment and the wind has just started to pick up.
> well that,s all from me, keep in touch Rob.

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Grey and 'orrible. 21.5C, 74%, dead calm

Hang on - what's that bright thing in the sky...? 


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Chris Maunder         Canberra, Australia
Administrator         CodeGuru  - www.codeguru.com
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:42:46 +1100
From: Ben Quinn [Bodie19 at eisa.net.au]
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STORM TIDE WARNING
Issued at 2:10pm on Thursday the 11th of February 1999

The centre of  Tropical Cyclone  Rona is expected to cross the coast
between 
Cairns and Townsville  between 8pm and midnight tonight. 
 
Expect open coast storm tide of  2.5  metres above Austalian Height
Datum repeat
Australian Height Datum between the Mouth of the Mulgrave River and
Cardwell.

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Subject: aus-wx: Static on Vic radio!
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:57:20 PST
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There is an increasing amount of static on the radio. It's gone from 
none at all two hours ago to one every 10-15 secs and increasing. The 
Foxtel satellite has been showing that the trough to the west has 
thickened in the last four hours and there appears to be two or three 
lines of showers/storms developing. It has been humid all day, about 
31-32C and 40-45% RH, so any action should be worthwhile.

Chris

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Subject: aus-wx: Taking the plunge in SA
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:07:07 PST
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The SA BoM obviously thinks that Crow eaters are an 
adventurous lot.... Note the advice in the last para of 
today's warning below.

Patrick from sunny, Sc blessed (?? or is that blighted??) Canberra


PRIORITY - FOR BROADCAST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE
Bureau of Meteorology Adelaide
Issued at  1.45 pm on  Thursday, 11/02/99
For people in the North West Pastoral east of Tarcoola, North East
Pastoral, the West Coast east of Elliston, Eastern Eyre Peninsula,
Flinders, Mid North, Riverland, Murraylands, Greater Adelaide and
Mount Lofty Ranges east of Adelaide to Goolwa, Yorke Peninsula Upper
South East and Lower South East districts.

Very heavy rain is possible with thunderstorms in the above districts
during this afternoon and evening.

Localised flash flooding is possible and people are advised to take
precautions such as driving through water of unknown depth.

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:04:18 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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TC Rona is gathering strength, now a Cat 2 with 130km/h winds...the 2pm
warning is expecting 180km/h winds tonight on the coast making it a Cat
3...they'll be at least on blue alert (possible yellow/orange?)  Does
anyone know where to get information to find out what type alert an area
is on?

Anthony from Brisbane (3:04pm)


Ben Quinn wrote:
> 
> STORM TIDE WARNING
> Issued at 2:10pm on Thursday the 11th of February 1999
> 
> The centre of  Tropical Cyclone  Rona is expected to cross the coast
> between
> Cairns and Townsville  between 8pm and midnight tonight.
> 
> Expect open coast storm tide of  2.5  metres above Austalian Height
> Datum repeat
> Australian Height Datum between the Mouth of the Mulgrave River and
> Cardwell.

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:05:52 +1100
From: Ben Quinn [Bodie19 at eisa.net.au]
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Hey Ben from Brisbane here..

TC Rona (980hp) at about 2pm this afternoon was about 170km ENE of
Cairns and Moving WSW at 20km/h. Current intensity is Cat 2, with gusts
to 130km/h near the centre, but expected to Intensify to Cat 3 with gust
to 180km/h and be close the coast between Cairns and Townsville. So
there will be some nervous communities on the North coast this
afternoon, i sure wouldn't like to be in Tully, or Ingam at the moment
(BTW, those who havn't had time or havn't got around to checking it out
on the sat pics should do so, it's a beauty).

The models over the last couple of days have been bringing the low down
the coast of Queensland, and last night BOM changed their forecasts to
the same .. the last thing we need up here at the moment is more rain,
things could turn very nasty towards the end of the weekend if it does
happen.. 

Can you say, 1974?

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From: Michael Bath [mbath at ozemail.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: Parramatta ASWA Meeting 13/02/99 - Agenda
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A few items that will be on the agenda for the meeting in Parramatta this
Saturday:

- Objectives of ASWA
- ASWA cards
- ASWA logo
- Storm Chasing and ASWA
- Radio Communications
- ASWA Web page suggestions
- Australian Geographic
- Chase videos for 19/1 and 30/1

If you have any other issues you would like discussed, try to let me know
prior to the meeting.

Make sure you bring along any recent photos, videos or other information
that you would like to share.

For those having troubles with the Park Royal accommodation offer, please
call Grant Boyden on 0412 661 937 as the offer is available to ASWA
participants.

regards, Michael
ASWA President 
*==========================================================*
 Michael Bath  Oakhurst, Sydney   mbath at ozemail.com.au
                 Australian Severe Weather
       http://australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:49:31 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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Hi all...hourly warnings for TC Rona, winds 150km/h intensifying...check
the BoM warnings page

http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/warnings.shtml

and click 'tropical cyclone advice for system 1' for the latest info
(updated hourly) or phone 1300 659 212 (cost of a local call from
anywhere in Australia except on pay/mobile phones)

Anthony from Brisbane (3:48pm) next warning is out at 4pm, the next 5pm
etc (EST local time for QLD, remember time differences)

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From: "Michael Thompson" [michaelt at ozemail.com.au]
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Great report and photos, I really like Photo 8, its is classy, photo 9 is
also interesting as outside a chase report you would happily called the
cloud Altostratus Lenticular, so what was causing the wind wave ?

Michael

>http://www.braenet.com.au/~disarm/30Jan99.html
>
>Thats the address, Jimmy and Michael B, if there are any corrections to be
>made please tell me ! :) thanks guys

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From: "Manda .  M" [manda at tpgi.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: TC Rona  update from Bowen.
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:03:43 +1000
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Hi everyone,
                     Hows it going up your way Rob ,most likely experiencing
some wild weather right at this very moment.
                    Weather here now is gusting to 30 or so knots at times
,raining (blew over my bannana trees too....2 of them. )at moments you get a
calm....then all of a sudden .....wham she goes off again.
                    I got drenched picking up the kids toys from the yard
just before,I know ....i know .....should have done it way earlier,but as
usual i like to keep everything until the last moment.
                  My sisters are going to have a long night ahead of
them,both their husbands work on the prawn farm down near Proserpine.Gets
flooded the roads around there...and around the farm as well......so heres
hoping the rain dont kick really in for quite a while yet.They end their
shift about 3am.
              I will keep you updated on the weather here..........i will
also be in #weather channel tonight.
                                    So Cya.   Manda      (TropiXX)

   TOP PRIORITYTROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 10
Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane
For 7pm EST on Thursday the 11th of February 1999
People are advised to take urgent precautions as severe tropical cyclone
Rona
closes in on the north tropical coast.
A Tropical Cyclone Warning is current for coastal and island communities
between
Cooktown and Townsville.A Tropical Cyclone Watch extends south to Mackay.
At 7 pm  Category 3 Severe Tropical Cyclone Rona was located about 75 km
northeast of Cairns and moving in a west-northwest direction at 10 to 15
kilometres per hour.
Rona is expected to continue moving in a general westerly direction towards
the
coast and is expected to be located close to the north tropical coast
between
Cape Tribulation and Cairns this evening with destructive winds to 180
kilometres per hour near the centre.

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From: "Terry Bishop" [dymprog at mpx.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: Orange Weather
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:12:15 +1100
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Hi All,

	This message was sent this morning at 9.25. As of 8.10pm it has not arrived
so here it is again.

	Another blue sky with a small amount  cir. cu and cu.
At Orange 09.25am ESDT 18C, 1018, 40%, NNE 5-10 knots.
At Orange 20.10   ESDT 23C, 1016, 32%, No breeze.

	Could this be a new cloud type?? The announcer on the cricket yesterday
afternoon said that the radar showed "a bit of light heavy cloud." If you
already don't have it then you had better add that one to your cloud
encyclopaedias folks.


 Terry.

mailto:dymprog at mpx.com.au

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From: Jimmy Deguara [jimmyd at ozemail.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: Perhaps some of you would like to view this link on occasions
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For those who don't know of this new link, try this for the NOAA polar
orbitor image of Australia each day

http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/IMAGES/wefax.html 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------
Jimmy Deguara
Vice President ASWA
from Schofields, Sydney
e-mail:  jimmyd at ozemail.com.au
homepage with Michael Bath
http://www.australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:22:57 +1100
From: Ben Quinn [Bodie19 at eisa.net.au]
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Jimmy Deguara wrote:
> 
> For those who don't know of this new link, try this for the NOAA polar
> orbitor image of Australia each day
> 
> http://psbsgi1.nesdis.noaa.gov:8080/PSB/IMAGES/wefax.html

Hey Ben from Brisbane here..

I thought this one was a great sat pic too, only just discovered it
myself

ftp://cyclone.msfc.nasa.gov/Weather/GMS-5/jpg/vis/4km/

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Subject: Re: aus-wx: Perhaps some of you would like to view this link
  on occasions
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Yes, we have these links on our site towards the bottom. There are 3 or so
mirror sites for the GMS. Notice the reflection of the sun on the ocean to
the left. I found this quite spectacular.

Jimmy

At 09:22 PM 2/11/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Hey Ben from Brisbane here..
>
>I thought this one was a great sat pic too, only just discovered it
>myself
>
>ftp://cyclone.msfc.nasa.gov/Weather/GMS-5/jpg/vis/4km/

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:01:06 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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Hi all,

I would be thinking that TC Rona's eyewall will be crossing the coast at
this moment.  The latest advice at 10pm was:

Details of Tropical Cyclone Rona, Category 3, for 10 pm
Central Pressure   : 970 Hectopascals
Location of Centre : within 20 kilometres of
                     latitude 16.4 degrees south
                     longitude 145.8 degrees east
                     about 50 kilometres north-northeast of Cairns
Recent Movement    : west at 10 to 15 kilometres per hour         
Destructive Winds  : out to 100 kilometres from the centre 
Maximum wind gusts : 180 kilometres per hour near the centre  
The next advice will be issued at 11 pm.

I certainly hope our northern counterparts (Manda from Bowen and in
particular Rob are doing ok) and I think that all of us should certainly
keep the people of N. QLD in our minds...as although this is extremely
interesting, and for want of a better word 'exciting' for us, for 10's
of thousands of others it's devasting and terrifying.  Lets pray that no
one is seriously injured, or worse killed and that damage is kept to a
minimum.

I have pasted the rest of the 10pm advice here:

BUREAU OF METEOROLOGYQueensland RegionTropical Cyclone Warning Centre  
Media: For immediate broadcast. Transmitters in the area Cairns to
Townsville
are requested to use the Standard Emergency Warning Signal.  TOP
PRIORITY
TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 13Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology,
Brisbane
For HHmm EST on Thursday the 11th of February 1999
Severe tropical cyclone Rona is now very close to the north tropical
coast with
communities already experiencing cyclonic conditions.  
A Tropical Cyclone Warning is current for coastal and island communities
between
Cooktown and Lucinda.A Tropical Cyclone Watch extends south to Mackay.
At 10 pm Category 3 Severe Tropical Cyclone Rona was located about 50 km 
north-northeast of Cairns and moving in a general westerly direction at
10 to 15
kilometres per hour. 
Rona is expected to be located on the coast near Port Douglas later
tonight with
very destructive winds to 180 kilometres per hour near the centre. 
Destructive winds will be experienced between Cape Tribulation and
Cairns.   
Coastal residents between Port Douglas and Innisfail are advised that
sea levels
could be 1 to 2 metres above the normal tide, but not exceed high water
mark
during the night.   
A generalised flood warning has been issued for all rivers and streams
between
Cairns and Townsville. Specific Flood Warnings have been issued for the
Barron,
Tully and Johnstone Rivers. 
People between Cape Tribulation and Cairns should shelter in a safe
place until
the cyclone threat has eased.    
Details of Tropical Cyclone Rona, Category 3, for 10 pm
Central Pressure   : 970 Hectopascals
Location of Centre : within 20 kilometres of
                     latitude 16.4 degrees south
                     longitude 145.8 degrees east
                     about 50 kilometres north-northeast of Cairns
Recent Movement    : west at 10 to 15 kilometres per hour         
Destructive Winds  : out to 100 kilometres from the centre 
Maximum wind gusts : 180 kilometres per hour near the centre  
The next advice will be issued at 11 pm.

Anthony from Brisbane (10pm)

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:14:13 +1000
From: Anthony Cornelius [cyclone at stealth.com.au]
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Subject: aus-wx: TC Ella forms
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TC Ella formed quite a few hours ago...but here's the info if anyone
doesn't know about it.

IDW01Q1040:2:2:24:16S154E999:11:00BUREAU OF METEOROLOGYQueensland Region
Brisbane Office 
Storm Warning 007 issued from RSMC NADI Feb 11 0700 UTC 1999. Tropical
Cyclone
ELLA [988hPa] was located near 12 decimal 2 south 164 decimal 1 east at
110600
UTC.Position Fair.Repeat position 12.2S 164.1E at 110600 UTC.Cyclone
moving
south-southeast at about 15 knots and expected to move southwards in the
next 6
to 12 hours.Expect sustained winds of 40 knots close to the
centreincreasing to
55 knots in the next 12 to 18 hours.Expect winds over 33 knots within
120 miles
of centrein eastern semicircle and within 90 miles in western
semicircle.
Forecast position near 15.3S 164.8E at 111800 UTC              and near
19.0S
165.2E at 120600 UTC.Ships within 300 miles of centre are requested to
send
reports every three hours.RE-ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY,
BRISBANE.