BOM now going for 2 days of "areas of rain" for Sydney on Wednesday/Thursday.
Time for a new thread with new dates, me thinks.

Homer

Great works guys! Mr Keene, killer positive mate, and to have Mr. Thompson and co almost coping it direct adds another twist.

I went down to Bredbo yesterday to try and find the possible touchdown point for tornado. I went from farm house to farm house and spoke to a lot of friendly farmers who were all too happy to share their experiences of the storm, including flooding, hail up to 50cent pieces (which is bigger than i got). I got some anecdotal evidence that the tornado touched down in the mountain range to the east of Bredbo: a farmer said that he saw a 'big swirling thing' on the ridge line of the mountains to his east but that he ran inside because golf ball sized hail started to drop from the sky along with some lighting.... hardly concrete stuff but it's all i've got at this stage. This i'm afraid it will make it extremely difficult to find a damage track, unless i can scrap up some money to charter a helicopter...... which might be perhaps going too far:) But fun though!

I showed a print out of the tornado at it's most obvious and people and people were very excited by it all. It was a good opportunity to educate them that the whole storm wasn't THE tornado like the media had suggested, rather a smaller part of it.

Some interesting rain fall figures came out, as you'd expect all of the farmers had accurate readings. One farmer that was 5kms nth out of Bredbo had 137mm from the storm! yet only 5kms further on they got 37mm, such was the isolation of the near stationary core. Will work on the other footage when i get a chance.

Greg, Ozthunder was referring to the wombeyan caves storm, not the harden cell clear air bolt. I think the close striking clear air bolt they were talking about was near bungonia.