North coast weather!

[GrahamL]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/20...03/2917062.htm

The whole weather thing was strange from the start on tuesday night cold , yet thunder lightning and torrential rain all night .

waterspouts are fairly common along the coast here , several months back I had lunch with the wife on the balcony of the lennox pub while one headed south out to sea for an hour or so.

Talking to a friend yesterday on the ridge inland from the coast hail was falling like snow it was so fine .

No one hurt thankfully .. perfectly clear night last night

[Lismore Bloke (Paul)]

Pretty wild stuff Graham. I hope your new address is not at Lennox ...

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Some pretty wild weather up that way. Hope those on this site up in the area weren't affected too badly

[goober (Doug)]

Handy for new radar testing

[mozzie (Peter)]

terrible weather!!!!!sunny today beautiful,looks wet down south

[GrahamL]

Well I always thought waterspouts were a tornados poor cousin
from now on won't be staying for a beer and burger If ones anywhere near

talking to a friend who lives opposite side of the street to where a lot of the devestaion happened .. desribed the 20 seconds this thing passed...

Above the rain and wind came a sound like an overeving jet engine
Still not knowing what was going on he walked towrds his balcony to
see a lawn mower go spinning past the second floor .. then a whole roof
trusses still attached.. then gone .. but then the debris started
landing ..aside the terrifing crashes as it landed on his roof he said
could feel the bigger stuff hit the ground as the thumps came right up through the foundations .

[Analog6 (Odille)]

The point with this one was it was really a tornado from the get go - it formed from a small but very intense intense thunderstorm cell which just happened to be over the ocean. On the radar the centre was brown/black. I understand that normally waterspouts peter out if they make landfall. Based on the Fujita scale of damage and wind speed it was an F2.

F2 wind speed:181–253 kph (LH event est wind speed 200kph); damage path width (m)110 - 250 (the LH event does not fit here, the reports said 50m width); Considerable damage.
Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; highrise windows broken and blown in; light-object missiles generated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale