Nimmitabel Tornado

Deckard said :

There was a tornado in Kambah during the fires in 03. It travelled from Chapman and across the side of Mt Taylor skimming the houses along Coulqhoun and the other side of Sulwood Drive. I remember seeing someone’s bike stuck in the powerlines and heard that someone had a shed roof end up in their pool and didn’t no where it had come from.

red hot sheets of iron flying overhead was a bit of a surprise, one of my mates abandoned his saving of his antennas when one shot over him. the tornado started further out, there were trees flat in one direction in stromlo. kambah got the winds, but it was far too hot for me to pay attention.

I heard a freak tornado knocked down the Caroline Chisholm High tennis wall some years ago!

There was excellent rain last night. no hail, no crazy winds . . . fantastic! (I’ve been smiling all month!)

peterh said :

Pommy bastard said :

Almost like proper Xmas weather here, is it not?

let it snow, you mean?

My apologies, I was feeling somewhat homesick. I meant “proper’ as in what I am used to, miserable rain and damp, which starts in August and finishes in April.

Then the bad weather starts,.

There was a tornado in Kambah during the fires in 03. It travelled from Chapman and across the side of Mt Taylor skimming the houses along Coulqhoun and the other side of Sulwood Drive. I remember seeing someone’s bike stuck in the powerlines and heard that someone had a shed roof end up in their pool and didn’t no where it had come from.

There was a Tornadoe which hit Canberra in the late 80’s early 90’s. The really funny thing with it (except for the houses minus roofs) was the one structure which was deemed unrepairable was a local church which was under construction between Chisholm High and Richardson.

I’m in Banks, no sign of a tornado here, infact not a lot of wind at all, which was surprising, just a lot of rain in a very short time.

Pommy bastard said :

Almost like proper Xmas weather here, is it not?

let it snow, you mean?

Almost like proper Xmas weather here, is it not?

I am very surprised to see that it isn’t ant posting this story, but the photo is stunning. got a copy from another forum, it is my desktop image now. as per comments in the other forum, though:

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Originally posted by bogong:
Have extracted some of the above article in the following post but would make two comments (I am a bit cranky leading into Christmas!!):

1) Saying that a tornado in Canberra is “improbable” is being somewhat complacent – there was a tornado in Tharwa (just to the south of Canberra) in 1966 according to the SES database.

2) Tornadoes don’t necessarily need a low cloud base – there are plenty of great shots from the US plains of high based LP storms producing twisters.