Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 03:31:03 +1100
From: David Carroll <davidkc at nia.net.au>
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09/12 3.30am


                    Cyclone batters WA's north-west
                    coast

                    Destructive winds are continuing to batter the
                    north-west coast of Western Australia but it is not
yet
                    known how much damage the cyclone is causing.

                    Communications have been lost to a remote Aboriginal

                    community in the cyclone's path.

                    The eye of Tropical Cyclone Sam hit the WA coast
                    about 7:00pm AWST, battering the Bidyadanga
                    community south of Broome with winds of up to 280
                    kilometres an hour.

                    The weather bureau's Linda Patterson says there is
                    more to come.

                    "It's going to be a while yet before conditions ease
in
                    any part of the coast where Sam is making a
landfall,"
                    she said.

                    While hundreds have been evacuated from
                    Bidyadanga, the State Emergency Service has
                    confirmed that 30 residents have elected to stay and

                    have denied earlier reports that they were forced to

                    remain, after a bus evacuating them, broke down.

                    Emergency crews and medical staff will travel to the

                    community at first light to assess the damage.

                    Meanwhile, police in Broome say they are concerned
                    for the welfare of three young men who left
Bidyadanga
                    earlier today in a bid to escape the cyclone.

                    They say a search will be conducted at first light
for the
                    trio, who left the community by car but failed to
arrive in
                    Broome.

                    Police say they are concerned the three may have
                    become bogged on a dirt track.

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From: "Adam Mayo" <oyam at bigpond.com>
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 23:30:38 +1100
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Hi Everyone,

At present we can see a great lightning display of the Northern Beaches of
Sydney.

Time 11.30 pm Friday 8th.

The Mayos.


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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 00:46:13 +1100 (AEDT)
From: Jonty Hall <jdh at vortex.shm.monash.edu.au>
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Hi Bussie,

There has been a discussion about this particular topic here over the past
couple of days (under the subject WEATHER: TC Sam on radar).  If you don't
have the posts, just email me and I'll send them to you...

Cheers,

Jonty.

____________________________________________________________________

Jonty Hall                   jdh at vortex.shm.monash.edu.au

CRC for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology
Monash University
Wellington Road,
Clayton, Vic   3168

Ph +61 3 9905 9684

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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, bussie wrote:

> I'm new to seeing a tropical cyclone on radar. Why is there only a dark blue
> showing eg .3 to 2mm rain fall rate. Shouldn't there be a higher rainfall
> rate?
> 
> Bussie (NE Victoria)
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From: "Ben Quinn" <benquinn at optushome.com.au>
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Subject: aus-wx: Spectacular Brisbane and NE NSW Storms!
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 08:47:16 +1000
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Hi Everyone,

What an awesome day yesterday was.  Jason Rainforest and myself chased
around the QLD/NSW border and the southern suburbs of Brisbane, scoring a
spectacular storm near Murwillumbah (just south of the QLD border), and then
another spectacular line of storms in the southern suburbs of Brisbane.

The Murwillumbah storm

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200001.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200002.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200007.html

There was anvil precip falling between us and it, and the area it was in was
pathetic for chasing - if we could have driven just that little bit closer
it would have been 20 times more photogenic - it was still quite spectacular
though

We then drove north, driving through a line of developing storms around the
Gold Coast area, eventually driving out of this as we made it to the
southern suburbs of Brisbane.  Before long a spectacular shelf cloud began
developing

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/ben/08-12-200005.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200010.html

There were some spectacular pulsing Cg's observed as this was developing

The foreground is blurry in a lot of these shots because we didn't know our
way around the area, and lookouts were few and far between.  If we didn't
have digital cameras that we could hang out the window along the highway,
half of these features woulnd't have been photographed

Anyway - some shots of the far northern end of the line

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200013.html  <--- that's
smoke
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200014.html

This is when things really started to heat up - as this shelf cloud
approached, a very very very very very turbulent underside was revealed -
between the cheers of joy and the " at )(*&# at (*& LOOK AT THAT!!!!" 's , we
rattled off a few shots

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/ben/08-12-200007.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200015.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200016.html  <---- probably
shows it best

The movement under this thing was just job dropping - it was like a giant
sauna!

Unfortunately this line appeared to weaken as it moved over us - we had some
strong gusty winds and heavy rain, but next to no lightning.

We decided to head south towards a slightly darker horizon in the heavy
rain.  After some spectacular anvil crawlers, we arrived at a lookout where
Jason capture part of an anvil crawler shooting through a rainbow!

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200020.html

Shooting in low light conditions is stretching the limitations of the
average digital camera, so none of these shots are perfect.  They do show
what we saw though

Some backlit virga

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/ben/08-12-200014.html

The sunset

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/ben/08-12-200015.html

and then an explosion of colour

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/ben/08-12-200015.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/lem/08-12-200025.html
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/pictures/ben/08-12-200016.html


There are a lot more pics on this page

http://www.bsch.simplenet.com/products/reports/2000/december/8/index.html

I'm ready for more!

BRING IT
ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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hey everyone!!!!

here are some lightning pics from friday 1st december

http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/01120001.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/01120002.jpg

thursday 7th
the first storm which is the same that delivered tennis ball hail to
nymboida, near grafton.

http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/07120001.jpg

a later storm which i travelled to currumbin to get some shots. missed out
when it was overhead. couldn't find a decent spot.
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/07120002.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/07120003.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/07120004.jpg

yesterday friday 8th
this one when it passed a little earlier had frequent lightning. but becos
it was still light at about 5:30 i didn't bother trying to get a lucky
crawler here or there. but when it was further north. i could see teh
opportunity to get a half decent one. it was like you would see a little
spark and then it would kind of light up these crawlers. it was awesome, so
are a couple of these pics.
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120001.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120002.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120003.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120004.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120005.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120006.jpg

then a brilliant sunset
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120007.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120008.jpg

tried for some more lightning from the roof when the storm was more NE
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/gany/images/08120009.jpg

more storms due today. have got a work xmas dinner piss up so i dunno if
i'll get many fotos tonight. won't be able to find the shutter button ;) hic!

cyas
Steve Baynham
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/gany

Australian Severe Weather Association
http://www.severeweather.asn.au

Brisbane Storm Chasers
http://www.bsch.simplenet.com

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Subject: aus-wx: 10000 mm of rain near Cairns
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Hi everyone;

         Just wanting to inform you all about an unofficial but historically 
accurate rainfall observation total of Mt Bartle Frere which is approximately 
100kms South of Cairns. The Mountain(Queenslands Highest) has recieved 10 079mm 
for the year so far until 9A.M Thursday. OVER 10 METERS OF RAIN! This is by far 
a record of Australia I believe, if only it was official. Are there any other 
rainfall observations around Australia that are extreme? By the way, here in 
Townsville we are still bout 10 mm off our all time record with a meagre
2200mm for the year to date.

     Cheers:  Chris Nitso 
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Hi All.

For those who may have missed seeing TC Sam crossing the coast on the
Broome radar I have uploaded an animated loop at
http://www.ace-net.com.au/~carls/TCSamBroomeRadarLoop.htm.

I intend to leave it there for the next few days.

Regards,
Carl.

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Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 20:53:18 +1100
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Im back again !
Drove from Grafton to Sydney today, Jimmy and Mario will be back
tomorrow.
After getting a nice storm at Grafton yesterday and a bit of lightning
the night before that, and 4.5cm hail near Putty on the day before that
(as well as a probable weak tornado), chasing has come to an end. To
give myself a wrap im happy i forecast thunderstorms, some severe for
weds/thurs just passed, and it was good to be amongst them :)
Photo's from the first 2 or so weeks of TDU will be up tomorrow or
Monday.

Matthew Smith
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From: "Paul Mossman" <ntstorms at bigpond.com>
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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 23:09:55 +0930
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Hi Chris - The record is actually 11,200mm or so - and it is held by Mt
Bellenden Kerr. It is also close to breaking its record (see Blair's post
earlier yesterday).

Paul in Darwin

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Hi everyone;

         Just wanting to inform you all about an unofficial but historically
accurate rainfall observation total of Mt Bartle Frere which is
approximately
100kms South of Cairns. The Mountain(Queenslands Highest) has recieved 10
079mm
for the year so far until 9A.M Thursday. OVER 10 METERS OF RAIN! This is by
far
a record of Australia I believe, if only it was official. Are there any
other
rainfall observations around Australia that are extreme? By the way, here in
Townsville we are still bout 10 mm off our all time record with a meagre
2200mm for the year to date.

     Cheers:  Chris Nitso
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