November 16 2008 - Vicious Supercell near Canungra/Tamborine QLD Australia

[tnobe3]

Stuff that, I'd be speeding away from that :P

[Kazekane]

0:50 face

[Kazekane]

@Kazekane 0:48

[WetPooooopie]

cxreepy

[Dettyletty]

I live in Canungra, that never happenned... We don't have tornadoes in Australia.

[vrednie]

@Dettyletty Well i hate to tell you, but tornadoes do happen here in Australia. They can happen anywhere. Its just that America has the conditions to produce the long track, damaging storms that you see so often.

[Dettyletty]

@vrednie

Well I hate to tell you that I live there.

[vrednie]

@Dettyletty Me too dickhead

[doodlestroodle]

Pause it at 0:49 - that's Pete Townshend's face!

[paddy101000]

I Live on Tamborine Mountain and this massive storm shut down our school for 2 or 3 day due to the damage.

[rumpig300]

type "The Gap cyclone of November 16 2008 - Brisbane Qld Australia" it's a crazy strom

[Zoomer30]

Watch yourself out there: storms down in AU can have some vicious lightning. Even worse than here "up over" in the US.

[a4x42006]

This is normal in Nevada in the U.S...i love these huge storms and luckily they happen here all the time in the summer!

[tornadovideostock]

Great video!! Amazing looking storm!

[TommyJoebowers1tycoo]

Dark and vicious! Nice position

[Mirocomputergenius]

man the clouds are so awsome!

[SuperBullygirl]

i title this...wall cloud with scud!!

[BoomBoom4216]

These are the times you wish you had an old beat up car and a water resistant handy cam... love storm chasing and luckily enough were in the middle of it on the Gold Coast and SEQ...

[Gabb761]

that the one scared me on the trampoline and i toke me guinea pigs inside becasue it like going to blow the guinea pig hatch down

[WtfSimpleplan]

LOL"Hopefully just rain" (turns out to be 130 km/h wind flash-flooding and hail)

[pigfaceddog]

THAT right there is when ya start to poop a little bit.

[NoGufff]

niiiice. We get some beauties up here on the Sunny Coast too.

[TheTomyossarian]

Magnificent. Absolutely beautiful.

[debosch92]

Its VOLDEMORT!!!!!!

[lilynick1]

WOW Nice catch!

[fuckicantchoose]

FUCK another 5-6 months to go before we get anything like this again, storm season is too short!

This year was my 1st year here in Aussie (Sunshine Coast), now I'm obsessed with severe weather, will have my own car by next spring and ill be out chasing as much as possible.

[jewlzben]

Mate they happen that quick, and form so unpredictedly, youll be lucky too catch them, good luck anyway, dont risk your life.

[oriongirlfan]

faces in the clouds!

[BurnoutRacer2009]

@oriongirlfan yeah i see a beard in a old man lol

[paerondryck]

It looks mean

[Xxbutterfly905xX]

PMS season... roar

[radbrent]

Did any tornados spawn from this storm?

[Hinezy77]

not officially.. although a few people reported a funnel shaped cloud..

Based on radar signatures tho'.. this storm that affected the gold coast hinterland area was much more likely to have produced a tornado than the storm that affected The Gap area in Brisbane..

[fjbutch]

I used to work at Canungra, and the weather can be quite unpredictable at times...

[Reapz69]

geez hw scary is that cloud, cool vid!

[XXXXShelts]

ooohh just noticed, the 2 'faces' in the cloud at 0.50

[XXXXShelts]

My other half and her friends were upon tambornine down near the waterfall, they just got real wet with not much wind. My parents friends up that way have been Qld'ers all theier life and they have seen NOTHING like what they saw that day

[obookd]

i live in ferny hills this same storm came through like half hour later it bent metal playgrounds around themselves this was 1 full storm "TORNADOE"

[U2uber11]

Hey, what's tha-... CRAP GET INSIDE!!!

[ToxicYena]

hmm im kind of curiouss

why is it being called a "supercell" ?

[Hinezy77]

A supercell storm is simply a thunderstorm with a persistently rotating central updraft.. The thing that separates a supercell from a non-supercell storm is the rotation.. because this leads to a much higher risk of tornadoes or at least significant wind damage when the whole storm is rotating.

[txstoryteller]

That is one bad a** cloud!! Holysmokes!! FIVE stars!

[stormspinner1]

That is one NASTY looking cloud ... holysmokes. Is this the one that hit near Brisbane? Been watching vids of it, wondered if you got on any of the action. Love watching your stormchase vids: and I thought the US Southern Plains had storms. YIPE. Five amazing stars!

*StormSpinner1* in Texas

[wwefanzone1]

So, you are saying that THAT is a tornado. It looks like clouds from a explosion

[Hinezy77]

No that's not a tornado but that same storm produced a tornado about half an hour after this video in a small place called Womblepong.

[tornadochaserX]

nice video

[Rusldalovemusl]

wow never seen that colour in the clous before, well not so black. It's like something in the lines of "the end of the world'

[Hinezy77]

I have to agree with some people on here.. there is NO such thing as a mini tornado.. it's either a tornado or it isn't.

Tornadoes can be big dangerous tornadoes in the EF0-EF2 range or they can be large damaging tornado from the EF3-EF5 range.. but there is no such thing as a "mini tornado".. It's just a stupid term that the Australian media uses because they're too dumb to even realise that Australia averages over 5 PROPER tornadoes a year... and they are just the ones that people see!

[Hinezy77]

sorry i meant to say small tornadoes that cause small damage in the EF0-EF2 range..

[friedpigeon]

One of our members of our Astronomy Club works for the Dept of Meteorology and at a meeting he said that when you hear the warning "Thunderstorms with severe squalls" is basically a Tornado alert. I hope I have that right but the main thing is here in W.A. there would be panic if they issue a Tornado alert. It is amazing how often after this alert that a Tornado has been blamed for damage.

[bullsbutt]

no there arent any such thing as a mini tornado!!!!!!, but i knew that that one did, when i saw the damage in brisbane, because simple gusts of wind can't do that.

[LilithFilth]

Whatever it is, it's one vicious, menacing lookin' cloud!

[ghosttroop]

Crikey!

[aus2045]

That is a mini-tornado

[millsy351]

get your hand off it... no such thing as 'mini'...

[aus2045]

Of course there is a mini-tornado, lol. It may not be a real thing, but it has become part of the Australian dialect and it is here to stay. I believe the term is also being included in the next Oxford Dictionary, describing an extra powerful storm cell. Mini Tornados ROCK!