Victoria: Showers and thunderstorms - October 6th-7th 2010

[Lily]

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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - MELBOURNE AREA

for DAMAGING WIND, FLASH FLOODING and LARGE HAILSTONES

For people in the Inner, Eastern, Northern, Outer East and parts of the South East Local Warning Areas.
Issued at 8:26 pm Wednesday, 6 October 2010.
The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 8:15 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Camberwell, Caulfield, Craigieburn, Dandenong, Footscray, Glen Waverley, Greensborough, Melbourne City, Pakenham, Preston, Ringwood and Sunbury.
These thunderstorms are moving towards the east.
They are forecast to affect Leongatha, Lilydale and Mt Dandenong by 8:45 pm and Warragul, Whittlesea and Yarra Glen by 9:15 pm.
Damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones are likely.

[Karl Lijnders]

Yeah saw that one too Duckey! Very nice from my lovely bay window overlooking the east.

Rain backed off here.

Patrick how much we had back at home??

[Bellarine]

Big Flang And a decent rumble to go....its not giving up just yet, and the rain has just picked up yet again....

[Blackee]

Out on the roads around Doncaster & Box Hill and it is nasty!
Some tremendous flangs and widespread flooding around Elgar Road and Blackburn Road.
Will check the gauge after this band has passed.

Edit: Kudos to Channel 9 for posting the STW on the screen whilst RPA was on

[tizza]

It's also become very squally here now towards the tail end of this system, it's blowing a gale and raining sideways, just when you think it's over it buckets down yet again

[damiantheomen]

all over here by the bay but my lord what a downpour that first line was - haven't seen that for a long time, looking at the moorabbin AWS it recived 10mm in 30mins and most of that I would suspect came in the 5mins when the main line hit because that was brutal!

Nearly all roads where sheets of water and the crossroads were torrents!

Absolutley awsome!!!!!

[Flangfest]

Yeah saw that one too Duckey! Very nice from my lovely bay window overlooking the east.

Rain backed off here.

Patrick how much we had back at home??

I'm tipping from that storm(s) - 10+ mm

[Duckey]

Temp's dropped back from 18 degrees to a chilly 12 degrees as the squall line came through. Still heavy rain but the wind gusts have eased. What a great night for everyone storm-watch wise

[Macedonian]

Sounds like a crazy night in the burbs! we have only had about 12mm here, 9 through the day and a bit of a downpour a little while ago
It is still 16C here, warmer than melbournes east atm

[rikjpool]

Jane O's rain gauge recorded a rain rate of 238mm Per Hour!!!!

[Bellarine]

Wind has really intensified on the back end as it comes thru. Wish I could get a pic of the rain being blown about by the wind as it comes down - its illuminated by the arc lights on the aths reserve in Elgar Rd - its amazing to watch

[Karl Lijnders]

I will check tomorrow at home further SE.

Rain coming down nicely again.

Watch for the SW burst of winds behind the rain. Should be a significant drying of the atmosphere.

[Dc449]

Had torrential rain here for a good 30 mins. Wasnt a hell of alot of thunder and lightning that i could see or hear here.

[Macedonian]

oops! its not 16c , my thermo is on the blink, its down to 9C

[stevco123]

not a bad start to october with 20mm so far. cant wait til next week now... lol

[Alexia]

Rain started 2045hrs very heavy for 15 min for 7mm. A lot of thunder and lightning around the hills. Rain getting heavy again.

[daviescr]

Oh I love this forum! Stuck in boring Sydney this week, but it's been great to see everyone's experiences on here. Timster - I love the picture you posted earlier this evening, very dramatic.

Keep the picture coming guys, only thing keeping me sane in my hotel tonight...

[Onetahuti]

not a bad start to october with 20mm so far. cant wait til next week now... lol

19mm just along the road from you. Garden will love it

[Timster]

Timster - I love the picture you posted earlier this evening, very dramatic.

Thanks!

[droughtbreaker]

Just checked the gauge again. 5.9mm from the squall line, most of that fell in about 3 or 4 minutes so it really was quite intense.

14.7mm for the day now. It's cold out there. Just a tick under 9C and still some light dribbling rain at times.