Sep 20 2008 - Dangerous Thunderstorm with HUGE Mesocyclone Willowbank QLD Australia

[Nickalodeon001]

holy crap that is SO SCARY

[joshjlboy]

dude get out of there

[mrpoobah2000]

wait, is there a tornado forming?!? wow now its scarier!! great work

[mrpoobah2000]

umm, not the best ive seen, but it looks scary!!

[Driinex]

There's a spaceship in there, I just know it.

[Wolfy2k10]

wicked storm . one of the best ever.

[Gottahavecod456]

DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!

[54spiritedwill54]

Wow, what an awesome thunderstorm capture, with the sunlight shining above the tops. Also with what looks to be a wall cloud before the rain shaft. Amazing!

[BurnoutRacer2009]

omg wow does any tornado spawn from this huge storm?

[JAH9495]

@BurnoutRacer2009 tornados can only start over water i thinkk

[ExtremeSpinner99]

Excellente capture, very interesting supercell thunderstorm structure.

[jtburckley]

Beautiful

[TommyJoebowers1tycoo]

Great catch of supercell. Liked how the meso almost "hid" behind rain/hail shaft.

[petpillow]

The people at boonah Are redneck inbred cunts

but i love the storms and the wildlife and the mountains

[DaCaSh100]

This makes scence. In australia it is spring at this time. The warm humid air colliding with the cold antartic air would cause alot of popup super cells

[daretodreamdaretofly]

yea we get a few of them

[Nenadnash]

These are called Supercells, very commonly present these days due to a global warming...tend to increase over time

[fuckicantchoose]

These storm formations have been around forever, they're just thunderstorms taking this shape due to wind shear (difference in wind direction) which this "warming" you speak of has nothing to do with. Even if global warming was happening right now, which it isn't, it wouldn't effect the frequency of supercells.

[csengeri]

Nice capture!

[KAking89]

great

[jeffreycoy]

i've never heard of a mesocyclone before

[supercell1995]

i didn't know even australia had such supercell structure! amazing! 5 stars

[ecstormchasing]

yeh, its a pity a lot of people think that. But we have some insane structure here at times...

[supercell1995]

you should visit oklahoma or kansas in the U.S., they have such storms every week during the summer season.

[xxMISSxxPRISSxx]

I live in this area of Australia and during summer, it's not uncommon to have several severe storm warnings during a week. The thing with Australia is that our weather bureaus don't warn people of the risk of tornado with these storms, it's always just 'hail, strong winds etc' - even when a tornado DOES eventuate, the news is reluctant to call it a tornado. We hear lots of stories about "mini tornadoes" lol because nobody thinks Australia can get real ones. It's stupid.

[supercell1995]

i heard of austrailia having softball sized hail and f3 tornadoes  before. i don't get the news people at all

[Hinezy77]

Australia has even had f4 tornadoes like the Bucca tornado in queensland. Also there's been over 40 deaths that have been tornado related.

There's probably lots that go un-noticed as well because more than 80% of the population here lives close to the coast. There are some wild storms in the outback that show up on the lightning tracker that nobody would ever see.

[MDHmodder]

AU gets a lot of supercells especially in queensland/eastern but it seems to me like barely any of them actually manage to produce tornadoes compared to in other countries (US, Canada, Bangladesh, etc)

[Hinezy77]

There are quite a few suspected tornadoes that occur around Australia in any given year.. the problem is that there are so many uninhabited areas where nobody lives so unless a person sees one and photographs it.. they usually just called "mini tornadoes" or some crap like that because the media doesn't want the public to think we get real ones..

If you do a youtube search for the Dunoon tornado.. that is a good example of an Australian tornado that was documented.

[twistedfreak1989]

@MDHmodder im waiting for the day we get a tornado in good old ipswich area :)

[stormspinner1]

Awesome capture! Five stars.

*StormSpinner1* in Texas