Australian Weather News -- 24 July 2000

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Monday 24 July 2000

Wintry gales, tornadoes and flooding as fronts cross the southeast

Cold fronts swept across SA, Victoria and Tasmania today as a prelude to another cold southern outbreak. Two weak tornadoes were reported from Aldinga and Woodcroft, about 40km south of Adelaide, South Australia, causing minor damage to trees and houses, while in northern Tasmania strong winds uprooted trees, broke windows, lifted roofs and completely unroofed a house in Devonport. Wind gusts with the first front were particularly strong in eastern Victoria and southeastern NSW where Cooma and Gelantipy recorded gusts of 89 and 102km/h respectively. Heavy overnight rain fell in the Western Tiers inland from Devonport, Tasmania, with 64mm recorded at Liawenee on the Great Lake before rain turned to lighter snow this morning. Minor flooding resulted in the Mersey, Forth and Meander Rivers.

Today's highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am 64.2 Liawenee Tas 47.6 Quamby Bluff Tas 46.6 Strathgordon Tas 40.8 Queenstown Tas	Today's highest & lowest temps		Other extremes Rainfall: Liawenee Tas: 63mm in 18h to 9am Queenstown Tas: 41mm in 18h to 9am Strathgordon Tas: 47mm in 18h to 9am Wind gusts: Neptune Is SA: 91km/h at 1.53am and 10.25pm Cooma AP NSW: 89km/h at 5am Thredbo Crackenback NSW: 109km/h at 11.58pm Longerenong Vic: 83km/h at 3.56pm Falls Creek Vic: 96km/h at 8pm and 8.30pm Mt Buller Vic: 98km/h at 7am Gelantipy Vic: 102km/h at 3.23am Cape Grim Tas: 115km/h at 5am Flood peaks in Tasmania: Meander at Meander: 2.7m around 3am with minor flooding Meander at Deloraine 2.6m around 9am with minor flooding Mersey at Kimberley: 3.2m around 3pm with minor flooding Records set this day .
	Maximum	Minimum
	34.4 Curtin AP Derby WA	24.0 Coconut Is Qld
	0.0 Crackenback NSW	-8.7 Glen Innes AP NSW
	Greatest variations from normal
	Maximum	Minimum
	+9.7 30.9 Windorah Qld	+8.4 15.0 Birdsville Qld
	-2.1 15.0 Esperance MO WA	-7.5 -2.0 Dwellingup WA

Times stated are the clock time in force in the relevant state or territory
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Australian Weather News gratefully acknowledges the Bureau of Meteorology as the collector and main source of meteorological data in Australia, along with the thousands of observers who record the weather and rainfall daily. I also thank Don White, Blair Trewin and the many contributors to the Aussie Weather mailing list who routinely provide much appreciated information.