Dangerous Storm Approaches, Dublin South Australiaby Greg Sorenson
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.
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.
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
Comments
Beautiful & brilliant pano! Stunning work!
That is excellent, love that build up. Nice work
Do y’ll get tornadps very often… If this was in theGreat Plains area, this would’ve dropped a twister..
Nice work oh this
Man…my spelling and typing is really bad……
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.
Still love this one Greg. :)
Dude!! Memories of that day are strong, was an absolute beauty!
WOW!!! This looks fantastic. Love the detail you have caught in the clouds. Looks like it was quite a violent storm.
Great picture, love it.
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