Australian Weather News |
Saturday, 24 NOV 2001 |
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Heavy rain fell across northern
and eastern Tasmania overnight and this morning from an active cloudband
ahead of a trough which in turn arced ahead of a deepening, slow-moving
low to the west of the state. The moist northeasterlies ahead of the trough
dumped around 100mm on parts of the Northeast Highlands and east coast ranges,
with Gray, at the top of the Elephant Pass southeast of St Mary's,
scoring top fall of 113.8mm. A heavy spell of rain in the central northern
inland gave Sheffield 68mm between 9 last night and 6 this morning.
Mt Wellington recorded 69mm at the summit automatic weather station,
its highest November one-day tally in 14 years of record. All northern and
northeastern streams rose rapidly, with the South Esk basin reporting
moderate flood levels and the Meander basin minor flood levels during
the day. Details of flood peaks are in the other extremes box below.
As the same trough arced east over Victoria and NSW and northeast into southern Queensland, widespread storms developed with reports of several severe storms, and isolated hail and strong winds. Thunderstorms around 4am knocked out power to much of Dubbo for several hours with lightning trackers recording over 2000 lightning strikes in an hour across the Central West. A storm that developed west of Moree during the early afternoon swept across the town giving wind gusts to 102km/h at the airport at 4.10pm, then continued moving ENE to cause extensive damage in Warialda. The hospital roof was blown off causing patients to be evacuated, while a number of houses in the town were damaged by falling trees. Tamworth was also hit by a storm late afternoon that brought down trees and powerlines. Elsewhere in the state, 2cm hail was reported at Elderslie in the lower Hunter, and 1.5cm hail between 2.35 and 2.45pm at Armidale Uni. Earlier in the day, scattered storms developed over Victoria ahead of the trough, one giving wind gusts to around 120km/h at Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. In southern and central Queensland, storms began forming to the east of the slow-moving trough mid afternoon but saved most of their wrath for early Sunday morning. |
National
weather extremes for today |
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Quality control note: Data is complete, and has been visually checked by AWN for gross errors. Less obvious errors may remain. See Explanation of Extremes Pages for more information | |
Records
set this day (previous
record and years of computerised record shown in brackets): Highest daily rainfall for November: Mt Wellington summit Tas: 69.0 (32.8, 14) |
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Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It includes the top 5 totals received, and/or all reported falls of 50mm or more. 113.8 GRAY (CRAIGIE-LEA) E Coast
TAS |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
42.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 41.9 URANDANGIE Northwest QLD 41.8 CLONCURRY AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.5 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA 41.5 WAVE HILL Victoria NT 41.5 CADJEBUT W Kimberley WA |
30.0 MORNINGTON ISLAND Gulf Country QLD 29.1 ARGYLE AERODROME E Kimberley WA 29.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 29.0 DUM IN MIRRIE Darwin-Daly NT 29.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands |
10.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 10.5 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 11.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 12.0 MOUNT LOFTY Mt Lofty Ranges SA 12.9 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC |
4.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 4.0 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 4.7 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 5.0 NORSEMAN AERO Goldfields WA 5.6 STRATHBOGIE Lower NE VIC |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+9.1 30.5 MORUYA HEADS PILOT STATION South Coast
NSW +6.3 32.3 COWRA AIRPORT CW Slopes S NSW +5.9 23.0 WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE W Gippsland VIC +5.8 35.8 TEXAS POST OFFICE Darling Downs E QLD +5.8 34.0 TRANGIE RESEARCH STATION AWS CW Plains N NSW |
+8.6 24.5 BREWARRINA HOSPITAL Upper Darling NSW +7.5 23.8 COLLARENEBRI (VIEWPOINT) Upper Darling NSW +7.4 27.9 URANDANGIE Northwest QLD +7.4 19.2 QUIRINDI POST OFFICE NW Slopes S NSW +7.3 28.0 WINTON POST OFFICE Northwest QLD |
-7.2 20.8 NORSEMAN Goldfields WA -6.9 17.8 RAVENSTHORPE Gt Southern WA -5.6 28.3 MURCHISON W Gascoyne WA -5.5 25.8 PAYNES FIND Murchison WA -5.4 23.5 KALGOORLIE-BOULDER AIRPORT Goldfields WA |
-6.6 8.0 KALBARRI Central West WA -6.0 6.3 NORSEMAN Goldfields WA -5.9 13.2 CARNEGIE Interior WA -5.2 7.0 BADGINGARRA RESEARCH STN Lower West WA -5.0 9.0 KALGOORLIE-BOULDER AIRPORT Goldfields WA |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. MOUNT LOFTY Mt Lofty Ranges
SA : 93 (300/ 67 ) at 00:30 |
Other extremes Flood peaks: Meander at Meander Tas: 2.41m around
9am with xx flooding |