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#721 Posted : Sunday, 17 November 2019 11:15:46 PM(UTC)
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Had to post this off Energex's facebook page. Shows the strength of the wind here.

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#722 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 6:50:07 AM(UTC)
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Hey thank you so much Sharjay for posting and sharing those images. That is similar to what we saw but due to the mess, traffic, detours, and roads being blocked we could not get to pull over and take any photos.

I am glad you are safe and hopefully you didn’t receive much damage personally.

It was an horrific storm.

When we were waiting to be seated at Hoggs Breath, I asked for a table on the opposite side near the road and not looking over the water and boats. The waitress thought I was a bit strange, I said there is a nice breeze just here.

My wife and daughter felt safe, I was watching the radar and doppler from inside the Hoggs Breath at the Wharf and explaining what is going to happen and a few around were eavesdropping,then quickly looking at their phones. I tried to stay as calm and laid back but my heart was pounding. I was horrified at the radar and doppler and then looking at the sky.

About 20 minutes later there was a massive roar like a jet engine above us then we saw the funnel and debris hit the water and move to the other area of the Wharf.

There was a mix of straight line winds and rotational winds in that cell. It was quite frightening. The aftermath was surreal, almost like we were in a movie. We had to make our way back to North Brisbane so I ended up making my way up to Buderim and the carnage continued. Then the highway was littered with cars just smashed. The amount of side mirrors and bits of plastic lying on the road was unbelievable. Right down the Wild Horse Servos there were trees snapped, trees blown over, even roofing iron laying twisted from nowhere.

So thankyou Sharjay for posting those pictures because it was a beast.
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#723 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 7:29:25 AM(UTC)
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Hi Colmait, yes it was certainly a strong system that past through. Glad you got home safe. I heard it was a disaster on the Bruce Highway. Those photos I posted is of just one street in our neighbourhood. I walked through there 30 minutes prior to the storm as it is part of my daily walk route, so am a bit shocked as to what it looks like now. It is impossible to walk through that part now unless you walk on the road. I too also heard the roar of the wind coming and then all the trees just bent sideways. We live at Glenfields Estate in Mountain Creek (suburb next to Mooloolaba, so not far from where you were). I cannot remember being in a storm like that for my whole life. The destruction around here and Buderim Meadows is unreal and looking around by foot and car, it looked like a strong cyclone or bomb had hit. I am certain there is much much, more damage around to what we saw. We had no power for 7 hours so drove out to Sippy Downs to get Maccas for dinner and there were trees down out there and along the Sunshine motorway and windows damaged from hail. We saw a roof torn off a house around the corner from us and my neighbour got a tree branch in his roof and pierced into their dining room. Considering we back onto national park with old large trees backing up to our fence, I am surprised our house came out unscathed. We got some hail about the size of a 50 cent piece but other areas got much larger. I saw photos of cars parked at Aussie World and as they got giant hail the size of tennis balls, the cars are a mess. There were hundreds of cars caught in it on the Bruce Highway that got severe damage and dozens of tow trucks worked tirelessly for hours to clear the highway and tow them away. Our estate has underground power, but there are overhead power lines in the older section of Mountain Creek and dozens and dozens of lines were down on the road. We drove along Karawatha Dve in Mountain Creek and the amount of large trees down on the road and fences and cars was shocking. Did you by any chance get a screenshot of the Doppler wind radar when it hit? Would love to see it if anybody has it as I was too busy recording the storm on the phone and forgot to look at the doppler.

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WYNNUM NORTH ( 27.4S 153.2E ) - WEATHER

DATE...18 NOV 2019 TIME....0755

CURRENT TEMPERATURE...23.8C
CURRENT HUMIDITY........64%
CURRENT DEW POINT.......17C
CURRENT WIND DIR/SPEED..SE 21Kph
CURRENT VISIBILITY......20KM
CURRENT MSL PRESSURE...1019.3pa
CURRENT CLOUD..........6/8 Cu
CURRENT WEATHER......Smoke haze
RAIN SINCE 0900 SUNDAY...2.2mm

SUMMARY LAST 24 HOURS
YESTERDAY'S MAX TEMP. .......29.0C
THIS MORNING'S MIN TEMP......18.2C
PAST 24 HOURS TEMP ANOMALY..+0.65C
THIS MORNING'S GRASS MIN.....17.0C
AVERAGE 24 HOUR DEW POINT......19C
AVERAGE 24 HOUR MSLP........1013.5Hpa
MAX WIND GUST LAST 24 HOURS...SE 50Kph at 2132
PAST 24 HR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER...Smoke haze throughout. Thunderstorm early Sunday afternoon with brief small hail. Dry gusty SE change Sunday evening, thinning the smoke.
Wyn Nth 2020-Jan165,
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#725 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 8:13:46 AM(UTC)
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Ferny Grove Weather
Date: 18 Nov 2019
Time: 7:50 AM

Min Temp since 9am yesterday: 19.4 C
Max Temp since 9am yesterday: 33.1 C
Min Ground Temp: 16.5 C
Rain since 9am yesterday: 3 mm
Temperature: 23 C
Relative Humidity: 55 %
Dew Point: 13.6 C
MSL Pressure: 1019.2 hPa
Wind Speed: light breeze
Wind Direction: SE

Present Weather: Smoke haze
Visibility: 20km to 39km - Very Good Visibility
Cloud Cover: 5/8
Ground State: Ground dry
Thunder yesterday: Yes

Notes of yesterday weather - 17/11/19: Smoke haze and increasing in the afternoon. Partly cloudy with cu clouds with cb, ac and ci clouds in the afternoon. A mild and brief thunderstorm in the early afternoon with a brief brief period of rainfall with large drops. Near average dew point early rising during the morning becoming moderately high at times in the afternoon and fell slightly later in the afternoon. After a brief rise in dew point whilst remaining near average the dew point fell with a wind change. A hot day with the maximum temperature reached at midday before increasing clouds and then rose following the thunderstorm. Relative humidity was moderately low early in the day, moderately high during the day and near average in the evening. The relative humidity fell slightly in the evening with the wind change. Light and variable winds early in the day with light E to NE winds from the late morning. Winds became light N to NE winds in the afternoon with some ENE to NE winds, before light and variable winds in the evening. Winds became S to SW from 8:30pm and then a wind change of S to SE from 10pm. Wind speed eased in the early evening and increased from 8pm with gusty light to moderate winds with the wind change easing later in the evening.

Today: Dew point continued for fall until 2am while remaining near average before rising slowly. Moderately low relative humidity overnight and this morning which fell further following the wind change. Light S to SE winds with some S to SW winds.
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#726 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 9:25:24 AM(UTC)
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Hi Sharjah, yes I have a few screen shots of the radar and Doppler radar sweeps. I’ll post ASAP. The chasers have made it hard now, they want big money for the archived sweeps.
As soon as I get home I will go through and get them.
It was a different view to what we are usually used to due to the dry air in the atmosphere then as it hit the coastline it really came to life with the feeder band coming off the ocean.
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#727 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 10:18:02 AM(UTC)
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Thanks Colmait, it would be interesting to see Doppler. Cheers
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#728 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 11:39:11 AM(UTC)
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Hi Sharjah, yes I have a few screen shots of the radar and Doppler radar sweeps. I’ll post ASAP. The chasers have made it hard now, they want big money for the archived sweeps.
As soon as I get home I will go through and get them.
It was a different view to what we are usually used to due to the dry air in the atmosphere then as it hit the coastline it really came to life with the feeder band coming off the ocean.


I've got all the archives via Radarscope if you need it.



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#729 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 11:51:57 AM(UTC)
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Had to post this off Energex's facebook page. Shows the strength of the wind here.


Wow. The power and pressure needed to snap a concrete pole is impressive and scary at the same time!

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#730 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 11:53:01 AM(UTC)
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Hopefully I was able to archive one from The Weather Chasers. I am allowed one free a month I think?

https://theweatherchaser...x_rv82403/wx_rv82403.gif

If it doesn’t display like it should , that would great Orebound. The Chasers want a fair bit of money depending on how many you want to use etc.


Edit. It is not good. It is at high speed and you have no control over it. I thought I had set it to turtle pace but that is pathetic. You want to be able to rock and roll it. It is a very narrow short burst that comes through.

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#731 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 12:01:35 PM(UTC)
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Hopefully I was able to archive one from The Weather Chasers. I am allowed one free a month I think?

https://theweatherchaser...x_rv82403/wx_rv82403.gif

If it doesn’t display like it should , that would great Orebound. The Chasers want a fair bit of money depending on how many you want to use etc.


Just let me know time and radar location and I'll dig up the velocities.

I'm guessing somewhere around here?

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#732 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 12:28:20 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Orebound. I used the Gympie Radar as it picked up the signatures really well. I think it was around 02:00UTC 17 Nov. onwards.

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#733 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 12:35:39 PM(UTC)
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Thanks Colmait & Orebound. I can see some strong winds in those images. Traffic is a nightmare up here atm. Still roads closed due to trees down blocking them. The 10 minute school run along the motorway this morning took 40 minutes. Workers out everywhere cleaning up fallen trees, energex still out fixing power lines. The hundred or so trees down in our little estate haven't even been touched yet. Guess they are trying to clear the main roads first to help traffic flow. Seriously hope we do not get another system like that for a while now, although I have been waiting for a few years for it to happen.
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#734 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 12:53:53 PM(UTC)
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Amazing photos and images everyone. Great to see them all in one place and not over 20+ social media sites!

Thank you for posting them everyone.
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#735 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 2:04:37 PM(UTC)
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A couple of pics I could get. This photo had a funnel that was roping out. BA54D4BB-E193-4123-96CB-880DF9D2E00F.png

One of the very heavy windows that was sucked out from the second floor. It hit the wharf with a massive bang. There were several loud crashing sounds going on throughout the wharf. Brocken glass in lots of places but I couldn’t get into photo. E7A8CBAC-E6B1-40E0-9BA8-AC9235143A30.jpeg

Just some random after the main cell passed.

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#736 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 3:55:59 PM(UTC)
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Hi Colmait, wow, decent size funnel. That would of been fun to sit and watchBigGrin BigGrin. Bet you were a bit on edge eating lunch.
The kids go to a school out at Sippy Downs and my eldest just said the college had massive hail damage...every class room in the school had smashed windows. A lot of the shade sails around the school have either blown down or have massive holes in them from the hail. My other son is in the primary school joined to the college via the carpark and oval, and he said no damage to their school. Very weird but then again our house in Mountain Creek came out unscathed whereas some neighbours didn't. Everywhere you go here people are talking about the damage their area received so it is quite widespread across the coast. A house on the hill on Buderim Ave at Mooloolaba/Alex Beach got evacuated yesterday afternoon as after the storm it shifted and had quite a lean to it and authorities are worried it will slide and collapse.
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Thanks Orebound. I used the Gympie Radar as it picked up the signatures really well. I think it was around 02:00UTC 17 Nov. onwards.

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Nice one mate.

Doppler at that range isn't going to be the best representation of near-surface features but it's without a doubt showing quite a strong couplet as it approaches the coast and a fair indication of a strong inflow dominant storm.

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Thank you for the update Sharjay. That is sad to hear of all the damage. The severe part of the storm seemed to have carved out a path. I know the Sunny Coast pretty well and I took all the short cuts I knew and it is like you said one Street was hit but another next to it was clear albeit a few twigs on power lines.

I feel for the people and their house becoming unstable, must have been on stilts and shifted or had very poor tie down and bracing.

You think of the movie Twister when this sort of damage happens. How the storm can destroy one house and leave the house next to it untouched.

I was nervous in Hoggs. I did put on a front so my daughter and wife wouldn’t panic. I was really worried with all the glass around but I just said to them and the people next to us to just get under our table if it gets bad. It was a big solid slab of timber.

The rear flank of the storm smashed a bit of hail into the windows but fortunately it changed direction quickly.

I am kicking myself I didn’t video the small tornado especially when it came off the land and hit the water. Everyone was able to see it then. I could see the debris outside and everyone was trying to work out what I was saying, plus the roar of the wind sounding like jet, no-one had heard that before and they didn’t understand what it was.

There is another video, and you can hear the roar of the wind, and the people shooting it on one of the top floors of their apartment are just laughing. I wonder if it was their heavy deck chairs that landed on the main road at Mooloolaba.

As we drove down the Bruce you could see the path the storm took. Would love to have got into a chopper and taken some photos of the path. So many tress just snapped and twisted.
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#739 Posted : Monday, 18 November 2019 4:54:56 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for posting that Orebound. Much appreciated.

We were originally down at Caloundra and you could see it building. My safest bet was to try and get undercover at Mooloolaba otherwise I would have been one of the many hundreds of cars smashed on the Highway.

When we could fully see the storm there was a massive Beavers tail on the rear of it. It was feeding beautifully of the ocean. I just could not pull over anywhere to get a shot or two. People were getting a bit worried and cutting in and out of the traffic so it took all concentration to get to the carpark. Just managed to fluke a park and get into Hoggs Breath. Order just arrived and before the storm hit we lost power so you knew it was bad.

Sharjay’s photo of the Energex pole explains it all. The staff said the power was out and it was going to be along time before it could be restored.
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Couple more photos. You can see the size of the trees now lying on their side uprooted by the storm by comparing them to the truck parked in the background. Also photos of Woolworths where the ceiling collapsed and water was gushing through all the lights. Yes Colmait, it was like a movie scene here. You are lucky you got into Mooloolaba and got some cover. Pretty scary stuff and especially when you have 30 to 40 metre high trees in the national park behind you. I still cannot believe one didn't come down on our house.163444.jpg20191118.jpg20191118_142540.jpg
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