 Trough
brings flooding to NE Tasmania, storms to eastern states |
| 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.
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National
weather extremes for today
Data provided
by the Bureau
of Meteorology
Last updated at 15:18 EDST on 25/11/01
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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
96.4 ST MARYS (GROOM STREET) E Coast TAS
81.0 ST MARYS (CULLENSWOOD) E Coast TAS
74.0 SHEFFIELD SCHOOL FARM N Coast TAS
71.2 MOLE CREEK N Coast TAS
QUEENSLAND
N
Coast--Herbert
56.0 UPPER MURRAY TM
TASMANIA
N
Coast
74.0 SHEFFIELD SCHOOL FARM
71.2 MOLE CREEK
62.0 FRANKFORD (ROSSVILLE)
60.2 ERRIBA (JUBB ROAD)
54.0 GOWRIE PARK
53.2 DELORAINE RAILWAY BRIDGE (MEANDER RIVER)
50.6 LORINNA
E Coast
113.8 GRAY (CRAIGIE-LEA)
96.4 ST MARYS (GROOM STREET)
81.0 ST MARYS (CULLENSWOOD)
61.4 BEN LOMOND
Southeast
69.0 MOUNT WELLINGTON
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High rainfall for periods
of 6 hours or less.
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Alice
Springs
ALICE SPRINGS AIRPORT
7.4mm in 8 min to 17:00 55.5mm/h
10.0mm in 1 hr to 17:00 10.0mm/h
14.8mm in 1 hr to 17:30 14.8mm/h
QUEENSLAND
N
Peninsula
WEIPA AERO
20.8mm in 23 min to 14:00 54.3mm/h
21.2mm in 1 hr to 14:00 21.2mm/h
Gulf Country
KOWANYAMA AIRPORT
12.4mm in 16 min to 17:00 46.5mm/h
16.8mm in 1 hr to 17:00 16.8mm/h
22.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 7.3mm/h
Darling Downs E
STANTHORPE (GRANITE BELT
HRS)
8.2mm in 38 min to 19:00 12.9mm/h
10.0mm in 1 hr to 20:00 10.0mm/h
19.0mm in 3 hr to 21:00 6.3mm/h
NEW SOUTH WALES
North
Coast
CASINO AIRPORT AWS
37.6mm in 1 hr 8 min to 22:00 33.2mm/h
EVANS HEAD RAAF BOMBING RANGE
27.4mm in 43 min to 21:00 38.2mm/h
27.8mm in 1 hr to 21:00 27.8mm/h
28.0mm in 3 hr to 21:00 9.3mm/h
MidNorth Coast N
KEMPSEY AIRPORT AWS
5.6mm in 14 min to 18:12 24.0mm/h
C Tablelands N
NULLO MOUNTAIN AWS
7.8mm in 45 min to 14:45 10.4mm/h
11.0mm in 1 hr to 15:00 11.0mm/h
VICTORIA
W
Central
GEELONG AIRPORT
10.6mm in 1 hr to 21:00 10.6mm/h
TASMANIA
N
Coast
WYNYARD AIRPORT
10.4mm in 1 hr to 02:00 10.4mm/h
SHEFFIELD SCHOOL FARM
15.0mm in 3 hr to 00:00 5.0mm/h
25.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 8.3mm/h
28.0mm in 3 hr to 06:00 9.3mm/h
E Coast
FINGAL (FORESTRY LEGGE
STREET)
10.0mm in 1 hr to 06:00 10.0mm/h
16.0mm in 3 hr to 06:00 5.3mm/h
ORFORD POST OFFICE
30.0mm in 6 hr to 15:00 5.0mm/h
ST HELENS AERODROME
16.0mm in 3 hr to 06:00 5.3mm/h
Southeast
MOUNT WELLINGTON
15.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 5.0mm/h
16.0mm in 3 hr to 06:00 5.3mm/h
10.0mm in 1 hr to 09:00 10.0mm/h
17.0mm in 3 hr to 09:00 5.7mm/h
Central Plateau
LIAWENEE AWS
23.0mm in 1 hr to 22:00 23.0mm/h
ISLANDS
Islands
NORTH EAST ISLAND
24.0mm in 3 hr to 11:30 8.0mm/h
40.0mm in 3 hr to 12:30 13.3mm/h
40.0mm in 3 hr to 13:30 13.3mm/h
17.0mm in 3 hr to 14:30 5.7mm/h
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Todays greatest temperature
variations from normal
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| 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
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+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
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-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
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-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
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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
MOREE AERO NW Plains E NSW: 102 (240/ 85 ) at 16:10
GREEN CAPE AWS South Coast NSW: 70 ( 20/ 63 ) at
03:00
MT HOTHAM AIRPORT Upper NE VIC: 121 (310/ 30 ) at
06:08
FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC: 119 (360/ 87 ) at 00:30
KINGFISH A SHIP LOG 206 W Gippsland VIC: 80 ( 64/
67 ) at 00:50
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Other extremes
Flood peaks:
Meander at Meander Tas: 2.41m around
9am with xx flooding
Meander at Deloraine Tas: 1.85m around 6pm with xx flooding
Break o'Day at Cullenswood Tas: about 3.1m about 9am with xx flooding
xx at Deddington Tas: 2.25m about 9am with xx flooding
St Pauls at Lewis Hill Tas: about 2.1m around 6pm with xx flooding
South Esk at Fingal Tas: 5.66m about 11pm with xx flooding
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