Australian Weather News |
Thursday, 13 DEC 2001 |
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A small but violent storm brought
strong winds and heavy hail to the lower Hunter Valley town of Dungog
NSW around 7pm today. The isolated storm cell developed about 50km NW
of Gosford around 3pm, then travelled slowly north parallel to the coast.
The storm maintained a nearly circular rain echo about 20km in diameter
on radar until it weakened then vanished rapidly around 8pm. Between 5.30pm
when it was west of Newcastle and 7.30, soon after it passed directly over
Dungog, the radar echoes indicated a strong but small hail shaft. About
9 Dungog houses were unroofed in the storm, while a shed roof was blown
onto a neighbouring house. Trees and power lines were brought down, and
power was lost to about a thousand residences for up to 4 hours. SES and
power employees spent much of the night cleaning up.
Heavy cloud cover and rain areas kept maximum temperatures 12 or more below average over the southeastern two-thirds of WA today. Leonora's top of 17.9 was a whopping 17.5 below the December average. There were some heavy falls of rain in desert areas, with Warburton recording 35mm in 3 hours to midnight this morning and Laverton 21mm in 3 hours to 9am. A line of storm cells that developed on the monsoon trough line south of Wyndham this afternoon brought brief torrential rain. Kununurra Airport recorded 47.8mm in 30 minutes to 4pm. |
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 (none known) | |
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. 114.0 DUM IN MIRRIE Darwin-Daly
NT |
High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. |
Todays highest & lowest temperatures |
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Maximum | Minimum |
42.4 URANDANGIE Northwest QLD 42.0 BOULIA AIRPORT Channel Country QLD 41.6 CLONCURRY AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.4 WINTON POST OFFICE Northwest QLD 41.0 JULIA CREEK AIRPORT Gulf Country QLD 41.0 CAMOOWEAL TOWNSHIP Northwest QLD 41.0 CANNINGTON MINE Northwest QLD 41.0 BEDOURIE POLICE STATION Channel Country QLD |
29.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 28.8 CENTRE ISLAND Roper-McArthur NT 28.0 KURI BAY N Kimberley WA 27.8 ALYANGULA POLICE Arnhem NT 27.7 WILLIS ISLAND Islands |
10.8 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 12.6 HARTZ MOUNTAIN(KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS 13.0 MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS 13.3 WEEAPROINAH W Coast VIC 13.3 STRATHGORDON VILLAGE W Coast TAS |
0.9 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 3.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 3.0 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 3.2 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS |
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal |
Maximum | Minimum |
+5.1 36.1 KALBARRI Central West WA +4.7 34.2 GERALDTON AIRPORT Central West WA +4.6 33.5 DENHAM W Gascoyne WA +4.0 33.2 CARNARVON AIRPORT W Gascoyne WA +4.0 23.4 BURNIE (ROUND HILL) N Coast TAS |
+5.1 27.5 RICHMOND POST OFFICE Upper Carpentaria
QLD +3.4 25.0 SOUTH JOHNSTONE EXP STN N Coast--Herbert QLD +3.4 25.5 BARCALDINE POST OFFICE Central West QLD +3.3 25.4 CARDWELL EDEN ST N Coast--Herbert QLD +3.2 25.8 MUSGRAVE S Peninsula QLD +3.2 25.3 INGHAM COMPOSITE N Coast--Herbert QLD +3.2 25.0 AYR DPI RESEARCH STN Central Coast E QLD |
-17.5 17.9 LEONORA Goldfields WA -15.3 20.6 GILES METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE Interior WA -15.1 15.7 BALGAIR Eucla WA -14.2 20.9 KULGERA Alice Springs NT -13.5 23.0 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA |
-6.4 5.0 RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH Lower NE VIC -6.3 8.8 NARRANDERA GOLF CLUB Riverina E NSW -5.9 7.8 WAGGA WAGGA AMO SW Slopes S NSW -5.8 9.0 EDINBURGH RAAF Adelaide Plains SA |
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. None reported |
Other extremes .. |