Dangerous Storm Approaches, Dublin South Australia
This storm occurred 21/12/06 approx 60km north of Adelaide tracking SE from the northern gulf region, and i intercepted near a town called Dublin, just along the Port Wakefield Hwy. The Bureau of Meteorology labelled this dangerous storm and developed into a defined squall line. The image is comprised of 9 exposures stitched together, and was taken briefly before i was pelted with mud, wheat husks and probably sheep poo. I witnessed imbedded gustnadoes on the leading edge, severe wind gusts i would estimate over 120km/h, 2cm hail and lightning every second. The storm weakened as it progressed to the northern suburbs as i pushed on further north, however the second line wasn’t as fruitful.
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Daniel J. McCa...
Beautiful & brilliant pano! Stunning work!
drec
That is excellent, love that build up. Nice work
Dennis Jones -...
Do y’ll get tornadps very often… If this was in theGreat Plains area, this would’ve dropped a twister..
Nice work oh this
Dennis Jones -...
Man…my spelling and typing is really bad…...
Greg Sorenson
haha Dennis! ;)
We do get tornadoes and i believe Australia sits about 5th for tornado production, obviously not as often as the USA, but well documented in more recent years with the advent of better awareness, the invention of the Australian Severe Weather Assoc. and technologies on the improve. Supercells happen quite frequently during the warmer months, in particular in SE Queensland and NE New South Wales during the build up, with high CAPE and LI values. Many of our chasers flock to this area in Oct/ Nov and have scored tornadoes, or at the very least well developed wall clouds.
The southern states have also produced a long history of strong tornadoes during outbreaks, i have unfortunately been unable to document one, despite being under a few storms that have shown all the signs of dropping one. 3 funnel clouds, no tornadoes….... one day soon i hope.
Typically in winter vigorous fronts pass through the southern states that contain imbedded storms producing tornadoes, usually in the EF0-1 variety, only causing minor damage. They are impossible for Dopplar to pick up because the imbedded nature of winter squall lines.
The storm above was rotating in several sections on the leading edge, vortices came and went very quickly. Very typical for such strong outflow areas here.
Am planning to go the USA in 2-3 years time during the storm season, many of friends have, some over there now as i type. Your storms are definitely like ours, only on steroids. Will be a dream come true.
Rikki Pool
Still love this one Greg. :)
Rowland Beardsell
Dude!! Memories of that day are strong, was an absolute beauty!
Andrew Murrell
WOW!!! This looks fantastic. Love the detail you have caught in the clouds. Looks like it was quite a violent storm.
Bryan Freeman
Great picture, love it.
Brendan Schoon
WOW, fantastic capture! Excellent composition with the road on the right side that leads your eye to the storm! Fantastic (extremely large) panorama! The colors are perfect and the lighting is absolutely stunning! Very well done.
Brendan
David Hibberd
That is one awesome cloud mate. Well done
Davo
John Kowalski
That’s what I call a storm front, excellent capture Greg!!
luis ferreiro
What an amazing storm!!! fantastic image great work..
berndt2
Amazing shot – surely you’ve enlarged this and have it hanging across an entire wall at your place!? Incredible shot
Oldrooz
Stunning shot Greg.
Linda Bianic
Spectacular capture,, we get several tornados here,,, and this is a doozy!!
well done,, and hey,, what s little sheep poo when creating a masterpiece!!!!
Robert Meyer
Excellent evocative emotional response… Living in the Canadian “Wheat Belt” as I do, I’ve been on the receiving end of a couple of doozies… and I love it. Fabulous capture!