These types of storms are the Plague in parts of the USA whole towns are destroyed, by embedded tornados and extreme winds. Many towns and cities (air raid ") civil defense sirens to warn people of appraoching storms. Some homes have underground rooms to go into for safety..
This is very similar to what happened at our house in The Gap. Our shed ended up 100m away down the hill, we found a placemat from our back area on the street 400m away, our windows shattered, water came through the walls and one of the chooks vanished without a trace. We still haven't found it lol.
It was like this in stafford heights, and i got caught outside in it. I love storms, but this was a little different. I was equal parts terrified, and astounded
best brisbane storm ever i cant wait this summer lets see?... we r in september, next month is october then NovemBeR 0o0oo intresting.... i heard things might get nasty this year 2
i give you guys a warming when it goes your way cause just about all of those storms went past the town i live in which is about a 4 hour drive away haha
hey i watched that thing on the radar and there were 2 supercells at first then they combined we got some hail and some wind but no damge and when i saw on the news my jaw dropped that was a massive double supercell that day and now where i live SE QLD is considered thunderstorm central
Amazing if you pause at 0:08 . That looks about the point where The Gap was getting hammered.. Looks even possibly like a tornado over the mountain or at least incredible downburst winds.. Great Video! 5 Stars.
HOLY SHIT! I WAS U THAT LOST UR TRAMOPLINE! i found it down near the creek... that storm was really scary and i was in a train when it hit.. the train was struck by lightening and we got stuck at michey for ages then when i finally got picked up it took 5 hours to get home again
I live in the gap nd it was bit worse then that. But in saying that i rekon upper kedron was the second worse hit. It was pretty intense, just glad not many people were hurt.
Thanks for posting this....I lived at The Gap from 1963 - 1987 and then Samford Valley until 2002. A similiar storm was in early January, 2001 in Samford on mornin at about 4.00 am when there waere crazy big hailstones / whatever - it wrote my almost-new Holden Commodore off in 1 minute or so the focus was so intense. Historically in Oz, after a major drought there's wild storms and then it all settles down again - this cycle takes x number of years, though.
you obviously don't understand rainfall accumulation rates well enough to realise a properly set-up rain gauge doesn't just record 200mm in half an hour. Are you trying to say the statistics I posted are wrong? If so you are the goose because that came from BOM's website!
Wow! In the future, please, instead of standing next to the window filming go into a room with no windows, and close the door. The trampoline or another object could have easily came flying, crashing threw the window. Great video though! Iv'e never seen a storm like that on youtube.
Supercell with potential tornadic no doubt .. very spectacular and with winds exceeding 100 km/h.. we would recommend the vision radar at the time of the phenomenon, thanks Max ;)
Hi Sandra, The gusts look much stronger than 100km/h in this video! We get 100km/h gusts where I live on a regular basis with big storms and the monsoons, this would easily be 130-150km/h imo, though I wasn't there to confirm it. O.O
Sorry but the value of rain you posted for the storm must be incorrect, if it were true it would be record intensities for Australia, also no other reports of such magnitude have surfaced. The record 30 minute rainfall for Queensland ever is 152mm.
Unfortunately I do not have any photographic evidence of the 220mm measurement. My camera batteries ran out and couldn't recharge them due to the power outage. The only evidence is a wet measuring tape and my word. However, I did manage to get some photos of the nearly full garbage bin showing 380mm (not quite 390mm as I reported earlier) after the Wednesday storm. (Ken)
I had wondered why the bin didn't just fly away in all the wind. I think it is because is was located between a retaining wall and the house which was reasonably sheltered from the wind. There doesn't seem to be any way the water drained off the house and into the bin. The only thing I can think of is perhaps large water droplets hit the roof and retaining wall and subsequently splashed into the bin. (Ken)
omg this is insane. how did you guys get off so easy i was at ma dads place and it was absolutly smashed. we sat on deck chairs watching then had to go inside the deck chairs are gone. :S
that is insane. It seems that these events are happening more and more in Australia in the last few years. I wonder when they will stop calling them supercells and admit they are mini-cyclones?
awesome vid, but if i was you, i would have stayed away from the windows, just in case anything came flying through them., but i hope that you and your house are ok, have a good christmas, and i hope that you dont cop any more.
I don't know if it was a vortex but that was about the time the wind suddenly changed direction from ~50kph coming from South West to ~100kph coming from the East.
Depends how you take the warnings I guess. If it was like most people I've spoken to they just thought it was another rough storm. Not a flipping tornado! I understand what you are saying tho. I think we were all mesmerized by the lead up! No better next time hey!
Hey, I live in Bald Hills, on the north side of Brisbane. We did get some pretty heavy winds and rain, but nothing compared to people near The Gap. Gotta be the worst storm I've been in for a very long time. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting. Very educational. I watched a guy's longer video on YouTube from Katrina in U.S.A. which was also like taking the ride as well. You were brave and maybe a bit foolish taking footage behind the glass. Glad it was OK. The Katrina guy was deliberately in concrete carpark 4 levels up, block from the ocean. Brave, mad maybe. By the end he was on level 1! ha ha. Good video though. Isn't technology like this a miracle.
Holy crap. Seeing all these vids really makes me feel lucky to have not got caught in anything of this. All we got was rain and a few gusts of wind . And i'm only 5km from The Gaps storm path.
I don't care what it's technically (or otherwise called)...it was wild and shared the &(*#! out of my dogs, my kids, my wife and myself (not necessarily in that order). We got off quite lightly compared to others.
Did you find your trampoline? My next door neighbour is missing his!
If this is who I think you are, my dad and hubby went over to check up on your mum after you had been. I know the damage around there was alot worse than that of mum and dads part of the street! Mum screamed the whole time!
If you go the the Abc brisbane radio website, the morning announcer this morning posted a youtube video which features a funnel formation moving down from the cells towards the ground.
Have a search, it's like 34 seconds long and it videoed in a rural area south of Brisbane before it hit.
i swear i saw a funnel formation at one point! i not sure but the wind was behind me the whole time and it was to my left... no idea what was it was(north south etc) coz i don't live in Brisbane and had no sense of direction at the time! i was in chermside (soz if spelling wrong) at the shopping center on the rooftop outside coles if anyone can tell me the direction i'd love to know it!
You spelt it right. That is where that guy drowned. I'm amazed no one else was killed or badly injured. Not sure of the direction either, but possibly looking south if it was coming toward you.
the wind was behind me where i was standing that all i know i don't think i could see brisbane from where i was(too much rain to see anyway) and not being local i have no clue!
yay i can spell! lol always wondered if i spelt it right now i know
I've lived in Brisbane most of my life. This was the first time I've seen this - I was looking at clouds and noticed they were swirling around an epi-centre. It looked quite cyclone like to me! My Mrs said last night that it may have been a tornado but for some reason, they never want to admit to them here. When she was a little girl, living in our very own 'tornado alley' IN Brisbane; we had a tornado and she tells me that it took months for the officials to publically admit it WAS a tornado!
Never the less, I am still trying to determine if it actually was a tornado or not (note I said TORNADO and not MINI TORNADO), it is unfortunate that I was no there to witness this first hand...but I do know a few people that did. Certainly one of the 'best' storms I have seen.
You're a lucky person - making this video at the height of the storm was very brave - especially with those big glass windows. Glad to see you didn't get too much damage though. The Gap is a whole other story tho'. But you know, Kevin 727 flew in to state the bleeding obvious today "well it looks like a war zone" ... God he's clever.
I hope all the people with damage get it fixed quickly.
Bloody Australia - don't ya love it - it's either drought or terrifying winds, hail and rain.
For the record, there is NO such thing as a mini-tornado! It is either a tornado or it isn't. I am fed up with the media sprouting out this term and its about time they were taught a lesson. The winds above are consistent what we is called straight line winds, which is a result of a downburst from a storm. I would estimate those winds to be in the order of 150 to 200km/hr.
I am a weather nerd, I chase storms as a hobby. I am well educated enough to tell you that there are NO such thing as mini-tornadoes! It is either a tornado or it isn't. End of story.
Sorry to burst your bubble champ... "mini tornado" is a term used by the media for anything with strong winds.. according to the media only the USA gets tornado's... Australia DOES in fact receive them however 99% of them go undocumented due to being in rural areas. This storm produced very strong microbursts in this footage, that's all... no "mini tornado".
yes australia does get them there was one a while back in sydney and last year one hit a town not far from where i live called dunoon. i'd say it was at least f2 coz of the fact it destroyed the town's church and riped roofs of houses (not sure what's what on the scale)
OMFG! Bugger the fact it should have been more secured, how the hell were you supposed to know that the storm would be strong enough to move the tramp like that. After seeing the destruction at The Gap, I now know what Mum and Dad went through.
The rain was probably not quite up to the 900mm Mackay levels, however, during storm we got 220mm in 20 minutes which is probably the same rate as Mackay during its worst hour. I measured this in our garbage bin around the back of the house. After the Wednesday storms we had 390mm in total.
OMG that was amazing! i live over at jamboree Heights, west brissy. we only got the early stages of that storm. it wasn't as intense as that. Hope your doing okay
that storm was insane you could barely see 10m! i was looking across roof top a car park watching trolleys have races! i know one car got hit but i couldn't see any others to see if they were hit!
hope all is well that storm was huge! i stood in a rooftop for about 10 min(all the time i had) before it hit and took photos with my sis it was freezing! then when it hit we (sis mum and i)helped people into cars quickly. them loading the kids us loading the groceries. we were at a shopping centre and had our car undercover and were waiting it out that one was huge!
This is why authorities such as the SES and Energex advise householders to secure outdoor items before a storm arrives, as they can become potentially deadly missiles -- imagine if that gas cylinder went through the window? Irresponsible.
I think considering how fast this thing hit, not to mention the amount of possible missiles there are to fasten down, it's a bit unfair to say this person is irresponsible. and how exactly is someone supposed to fasten down a trampoline? We tried everything to fasten down objects and it did nothing. People have enough to deal with, without negative comments, and I'm sure lessons have been learned.
you turn it over and stick something real heavy on it but that takes ages! that is why i got rid of mine! but i was there and i know how quick that storm hit i don't blame you there wasn't any time!
read my above comment for an understanding of how quick it hit!
true but hey that is what i was always taught to do it also protects it from the hail coz it cannot get through so no holes! it does work but there are different types(like this one) that it is almost impossible to do it with and then there are those that have a big hole cut for them in the ground it is very herd to flip them over coz you have to get them out of the hole!
...As MY video starts off just after our HEAVILLY nailed down shadecloth blew away like a sail, as did the next door neighbours; there is NO WAY any of us can BEAT natures force.
i've seen yours and yea it was blowing hard and came down fast! i had parked my car (undercover at a shopping center) then run to the rooftop parking to have a quick look then i ran to coles(where most people were) and warned about 6 of the storm then i went outside the store and up the escalator (right next door) back to the rooftop parking the storm had hit and hit hard! the time between when we parked the car to when i got onto the roof the second time wasn't much more than 10 min! it was big
that storm was big! i was there by fluke! i live 3 hrs away in lismore nsw and was there getting a formal dress we turned around after watching it get worse and went back to the shop with undercover parking!(we were headed back to my sis's place (middle of city)(btw it was 15 min trip and we wouldn't have made it. built up real quick!) mum my sis and i split up and at least 10 families got their cars undercover coz we'd warned them or the danger-storm and that sucker was swirling like mad!
Now this is a bloody big storm.
RadioTrefoil 3 weeks ago
These types of storms are the Plague in parts of the USA whole towns are destroyed, by embedded tornados and extreme winds. Many towns and cities (air raid ") civil defense sirens to warn people of appraoching storms. Some homes have underground rooms to go into for safety..
benjamin5028 3 months ago
Hidden Tornado in that storm?
benjamin5028 3 months ago
I was looking at the swing set and wondering if that was gonna blow over, but it didn't..
BrisbaneStormKid 10 months ago
I bet the kids were upset when they saw their trampoline destroyed, mine would have been, they live on the bloody thing.
jewlzben 10 months ago
This is very similar to what happened at our house in The Gap. Our shed ended up 100m away down the hill, we found a placemat from our back area on the street 400m away, our windows shattered, water came through the walls and one of the chooks vanished without a trace. We still haven't found it lol.
TheHazelErwin 1 year ago
It was like this in stafford heights, and i got caught outside in it. I love storms, but this was a little different. I was equal parts terrified, and astounded
vrednie 1 year ago
wow, it looks like someone used the hose on the glass and the water dripped down. haha. how bad was it in your point of view?
xxstealerxx 1 year ago
that looked like a cyclone
massa101257 1 year ago
Have to love those 80-90 mph (130-140 kph) microbursts. We get plenty here in Illinois, USA
tropicalchaser 1 year ago
Have to love those 80-90 mph (130 -140 kph) microbursts
tropicalchaser 1 year ago
lawl! at like 0:48 it was like being in a car wash!!!
HannahMileyFan4u 1 year ago
what the hells goin on man that looks like a level 2 hurricane!
SuperBigmac1997 1 year ago
goodbye trampoline
Gabb761 1 year ago
Looks like a huge car wash. And the trampoline... you're lucky it didn't came through the window.
puppetwizard 1 year ago
That's crazy.
GameSharkWizard 1 year ago
Not the gap? i think this is bad enough
theYoda09 1 year ago
Amazing that you didn't lose your roof.
bannol 1 year ago
Great Footage Here.
Bump
bumptybu 1 year ago
insane stuff pure madness from the skies
gleno2008 1 year ago
holy crap omg thats bad as, i remember this on the news
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Good footage! this storm cost me $5300 in repairs. was driving in my ute when the hail came
mbaproduction 2 years ago
lets go and take the dog out for a walk
miloownd 2 years ago
looks like a convenient way to get rid of a bad dog.
LOL!
LaserDarkDX 2 years ago
Looks like a tornado to me:)
foreyeproductions 2 years ago
from :23 to :32 it looks as if the wind was coming from all different directions . . . was that what happened ? Some scary shit ey
shanehodd 2 years ago
Thats fuckin insane! Great footage! Gotta love Microburts!
MrMesocyclone 2 years ago
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spazzo73 2 years ago
i remember this storm i live in the gap on a big hill and it got really bad
greigy10 2 years ago
best brisbane storm ever i cant wait this summer lets see?... we r in september, next month is october then NovemBeR 0o0oo intresting.... i heard things might get nasty this year 2
inala1made 2 years ago
i give you guys a warming when it goes your way cause just about all of those storms went past the town i live in which is about a 4 hour drive away haha
TravvyG 2 years ago
Bloody hell!! I don't know how you kept quiet!! I would have been screaming like a baby... and I know that for a fact... I'm from Brisbane!
TheViolentTeddy 2 years ago
This is super thunderstorm!
ST0RM13542 2 years ago
woow ...it seems to be realy extreme wind, do you know how strong were greatest windgusts?
SkyWarnCZ 2 years ago
I think some of the estimates of winds from that storm were up to 180km/h based on some of the damage that was surveyed afterwards..
Hinezy77 2 years ago
Love A Duck. you are lucky that trampoline didnt do any damage to anyone.
We live in Redcliffe byt the time storms get here they are nothing.
mavericksmummy 2 years ago
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mavericksmummy 2 years ago
Brave camerawork under the SuperCell.. Incredible footage
djtoomey 2 years ago
hey i watched that thing on the radar and there were 2 supercells at first then they combined we got some hail and some wind but no damge and when i saw on the news my jaw dropped that was a massive double supercell that day and now where i live SE QLD is considered thunderstorm central
nirvanaluvaz 2 years ago
WOW!!!! amazing footage! you should have sent this to one of the tv channels!!
sami2k6 2 years ago
0:49 and on looks like a god dam hurricane
volval0 2 years ago
that would have been pretty scary my missus and I saw the clouds from mary cairn cross park(maleny) It looked like the end of the world!
jewlzben 2 years ago
search 2012 news !
inala1made 2 years ago
Yeah that is some scary shit hey, glad I wasnt in it, we went down afterwoods to help with the clean up.
jewlzben 2 years ago
you filmed the strom coming yet you didnt secure all your loose items in your backyard
TKaussie 2 years ago
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spazzo73 2 years ago
wish we got storm here like that
stormsfish 3 years ago
my god
bogdan9875 3 years ago
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Amazing if you pause at 0:08 . That looks about the point where The Gap was getting hammered.. Looks even possibly like a tornado over the mountain or at least incredible downburst winds.. Great Video! 5 Stars.
Hinezy77 3 years ago
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Hinezy77 3 years ago
that's just plain crazy. Was there any damage done to your property?
radbrent 3 years ago
duh. Any of your friends or neighbors have some bad damage? Cars wrecking, houses, etc?
radbrent 3 years ago
HOLY SHIT! I WAS U THAT LOST UR TRAMOPLINE! i found it down near the creek... that storm was really scary and i was in a train when it hit.. the train was struck by lightening and we got stuck at michey for ages then when i finally got picked up it took 5 hours to get home again
NumNumsGirl 3 years ago
Holy shit. i live at Bulimba, we only got hgue hail and wind and rain heaps but not as bad as that!
We have a trampoline the same as that and it is pretty fucking heavy! look at yours its like a ragdoll! i wanna nother storm like that!
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Hinezy77 3 years ago
I live in the gap nd it was bit worse then that. But in saying that i rekon upper kedron was the second worse hit. It was pretty intense, just glad not many people were hurt.
richards002 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this....I lived at The Gap from 1963 - 1987 and then Samford Valley until 2002. A similiar storm was in early January, 2001 in Samford on mornin at about 4.00 am when there waere crazy big hailstones / whatever - it wrote my almost-new Holden Commodore off in 1 minute or so the focus was so intense. Historically in Oz, after a major drought there's wild storms and then it all settles down again - this cycle takes x number of years, though.
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Ha ha, reading through some of these posts......every cunts an expert, hahahahaha!
Xteckor 3 years ago
nice vid... looks like Dora had a great adventure too :)
CrazyQueenslander 3 years ago
well wheres the proof then retard!
you obviously don't understand rainfall accumulation rates well enough to realise a properly set-up rain gauge doesn't just record 200mm in half an hour. Are you trying to say the statistics I posted are wrong? If so you are the goose because that came from BOM's website!
banksd29 3 years ago
Why do the videos look wider?
Hurricane23mph 3 years ago
like being inside a carwash!
ryko26 3 years ago 2
Wow! In the future, please, instead of standing next to the window filming go into a room with no windows, and close the door. The trampoline or another object could have easily came flying, crashing threw the window. Great video though! Iv'e never seen a storm like that on youtube.
airplaneguy2 3 years ago
not much point filming in a dark room without any windows lol.. But yes it is dangerous to be near windows.
acccrew01 3 years ago
you should check out my vid
atocombabaya 3 years ago
wow, i guess i got off pretty easy.
brokeinvestor 3 years ago
So did we, in comparison to the Gap that is.
sandra00074 3 years ago
Supercell with potential tornadic no doubt .. very spectacular and with winds exceeding 100 km/h.. we would recommend the vision radar at the time of the phenomenon, thanks Max ;)
real0988 3 years ago
Hi Sandra, The gusts look much stronger than 100km/h in this video! We get 100km/h gusts where I live on a regular basis with big storms and the monsoons, this would easily be 130-150km/h imo, though I wasn't there to confirm it. O.O
Staccato26 3 years ago
WOW is allI can say this is beyoned incredible
liquidstl 3 years ago
I would of love to see how this stormed looked like on American National Weather Service dopplar radar.
CaliforniaGuy88 3 years ago
Sorry but the value of rain you posted for the storm must be incorrect, if it were true it would be record intensities for Australia, also no other reports of such magnitude have surfaced. The record 30 minute rainfall for Queensland ever is 152mm.
banksd29 3 years ago
Unfortunately I do not have any photographic evidence of the 220mm measurement. My camera batteries ran out and couldn't recharge them due to the power outage. The only evidence is a wet measuring tape and my word. However, I did manage to get some photos of the nearly full garbage bin showing 380mm (not quite 390mm as I reported earlier) after the Wednesday storm. (Ken)
sandra00074 3 years ago
I had wondered why the bin didn't just fly away in all the wind. I think it is because is was located between a retaining wall and the house which was reasonably sheltered from the wind. There doesn't seem to be any way the water drained off the house and into the bin. The only thing I can think of is perhaps large water droplets hit the roof and retaining wall and subsequently splashed into the bin. (Ken)
sandra00074 3 years ago
Far out man! That must have been so scary! How's the trampoline now?
bondi380 3 years ago
Tramampoline! ;)
Tanru2000 3 years ago
The trampoline was wrapped around the fence and house. It was wrecked. I think we got of lightly compared other places though.
sandra00074 3 years ago
We got the trampoline on special and was fairly cheap. It wasn't too much of a loss monetary wise.
sandra00074 3 years ago
I can't believe it. A perfect storm! Greetings from Croatia!
crometeo 3 years ago
That is an insane amount of wind. I had never seen anything like it before. Never forget it.
Great footage.
orodrethAU 3 years ago 2
omg this is insane. how did you guys get off so easy i was at ma dads place and it was absolutly smashed. we sat on deck chairs watching then had to go inside the deck chairs are gone. :S
mikaelaewings 3 years ago
Thats insane, Im surprised your glass didnt shatter. Ours did.
Millzayee 3 years ago 2
that is insane. It seems that these events are happening more and more in Australia in the last few years. I wonder when they will stop calling them supercells and admit they are mini-cyclones?
Rusldalovemusl 3 years ago
awesome vid, but if i was you, i would have stayed away from the windows, just in case anything came flying through them., but i hope that you and your house are ok, have a good christmas, and i hope that you dont cop any more.
bullsbutt 3 years ago 2
if that was me. i would of been outside
AaronPro8 3 years ago
shit...does anyone know if Kath and Kim are ok?
dathuman 3 years ago
umm, not funny. People died in these storms.
krypter3 3 years ago
Yeah, but they are don in Melbourne so the storm didn't hit them.
iskandar1111 3 years ago
oh yes old chap. have another tea and scons, and warm beer
atocombabaya 3 years ago
ahahah goodbye trampoline
jafoosy 3 years ago
That is crazy, i live on the Sunshine Coast and we didnt have it that bad!
jafoosy 3 years ago
O_O
kat3802 3 years ago
i live at glasshouse mountains and when i saw the clouds coming they were so fast and that storm was absulutaly windy and wet and loud
skids101 3 years ago
That's unbelievable. I'm sure that it looks like a vortext passing over at around 0:35 to 0:40.
mikeofmacc 3 years ago
I don't know if it was a vortex but that was about the time the wind suddenly changed direction from ~50kph coming from South West to ~100kph coming from the East.
sandra00074 3 years ago
Next time you'll put away that tramampoline, I'm guessing.
Tanru2000 3 years ago 2
Yeah! In which minute do you think they had time to do that? And how long do you think it would take to undo all those bolts?
1968garfield 3 years ago
Maybe before the storm hits?
Tanru2000 3 years ago
Depends how you take the warnings I guess. If it was like most people I've spoken to they just thought it was another rough storm. Not a flipping tornado! I understand what you are saying tho. I think we were all mesmerized by the lead up! No better next time hey!
1968garfield 3 years ago
Yeah. Anyways my comment was sorta tongue-in-cheek. :)
Tanru2000 3 years ago
Hehe! I gathered that! Hope you guys are ok anyway! We were lucky. It was bloody scary tho.
1968garfield 3 years ago
Hey, I live in Bald Hills, on the north side of Brisbane. We did get some pretty heavy winds and rain, but nothing compared to people near The Gap. Gotta be the worst storm I've been in for a very long time. Thanks for posting.
123presto1 3 years ago 2
we live in wamuran so we didnt get much just heavy rain for a while thats it.
JasonRichardTaylor 3 years ago
i live in brisbane and had no idea how bad the storm was!! thats crazzzy
leightbox 3 years ago
pretty sure i saw this footage on the news.
aaronaqua 3 years ago
wow whach my vidios there realy whorth whaching my acount is odge10
odge10 3 years ago
Poor Bbq, next time you'll know to put away objects that can fly away.
mussang1 3 years ago
no offence but the trampoline is funny but as i said in the other comment it was a very windy and wet storm
skids101 3 years ago
Thanks for posting. Very educational. I watched a guy's longer video on YouTube from Katrina in U.S.A. which was also like taking the ride as well. You were brave and maybe a bit foolish taking footage behind the glass. Glad it was OK. The Katrina guy was deliberately in concrete carpark 4 levels up, block from the ocean. Brave, mad maybe. By the end he was on level 1! ha ha. Good video though. Isn't technology like this a miracle.
Tom5578 3 years ago
omg wen is is going to go me and my dance crew are supposed to be going 2moro thursday and we were hoping it was going to be fun
487956188 3 years ago
This storm is just like the one that hit Sydney in 1991. My suburb looked like The Gap does now.
4497570 3 years ago
You are lucky that the storm didn't hurl the trampoline through your window! Winds that strength are capable of doing anything.
StavrosOmnibus 3 years ago 2
I think it was about to come through the window but another wind saved it and pushed it further along.
sandra00074 3 years ago
I heard you guys were getting hit by storms over east but I had no idea it was this bad.
PrivateFryzie 3 years ago
Excellent! - Only element missing was what I was saying and would have been saying during the video; I'll give you a clue *&^( !!!
;-)
This thing was more like a tornado, does anyone agree?
smackc4 3 years ago
My oath
1968garfield 3 years ago
Holy crap. Seeing all these vids really makes me feel lucky to have not got caught in anything of this. All we got was rain and a few gusts of wind . And i'm only 5km from The Gaps storm path.
guarana80 3 years ago
holy crap
that wind was CRAZY
lucky no one got seriously injured
foreverscubbely 3 years ago
I don't care what it's technically (or otherwise called)...it was wild and shared the &(*#! out of my dogs, my kids, my wife and myself (not necessarily in that order). We got off quite lightly compared to others.
Did you find your trampoline? My next door neighbour is missing his!
mfeodoroff 3 years ago
hope ya neighbor finds it have they looked in nearby trees yet? from what i saw on sunday it could very well be in one!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
If this is who I think you are, my dad and hubby went over to check up on your mum after you had been. I know the damage around there was alot worse than that of mum and dads part of the street! Mum screamed the whole time!
1968garfield 3 years ago
It's called
brisbane storm 16th nov 2008
by kyldaz
you'll see the funnel - 24 seconds long
MyBadCat23 3 years ago
If you go the the Abc brisbane radio website, the morning announcer this morning posted a youtube video which features a funnel formation moving down from the cells towards the ground.
Have a search, it's like 34 seconds long and it videoed in a rural area south of Brisbane before it hit.
MyBadCat23 3 years ago
i swear i saw a funnel formation at one point! i not sure but the wind was behind me the whole time and it was to my left... no idea what was it was(north south etc) coz i don't live in Brisbane and had no sense of direction at the time! i was in chermside (soz if spelling wrong) at the shopping center on the rooftop outside coles if anyone can tell me the direction i'd love to know it!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
You spelt it right. That is where that guy drowned. I'm amazed no one else was killed or badly injured. Not sure of the direction either, but possibly looking south if it was coming toward you.
1968garfield 3 years ago
the wind was behind me where i was standing that all i know i don't think i could see brisbane from where i was(too much rain to see anyway) and not being local i have no clue!
yay i can spell! lol always wondered if i spelt it right now i know
budgiebreder 3 years ago
I've lived in Brisbane most of my life. This was the first time I've seen this - I was looking at clouds and noticed they were swirling around an epi-centre. It looked quite cyclone like to me! My Mrs said last night that it may have been a tornado but for some reason, they never want to admit to them here. When she was a little girl, living in our very own 'tornado alley' IN Brisbane; we had a tornado and she tells me that it took months for the officials to publically admit it WAS a tornado!
smackc4 3 years ago
You have got to be fucking with me.
MDHmodder 3 years ago
Never the less, I am still trying to determine if it actually was a tornado or not (note I said TORNADO and not MINI TORNADO), it is unfortunate that I was no there to witness this first hand...but I do know a few people that did. Certainly one of the 'best' storms I have seen.
gstormc 3 years ago 3
All these comments are for the benefit and entertainment of Sandra000074 hehe
MyBadCat23 3 years ago
Well, I WANT to call it a mini-tornado (pokes tongue out).
MyBadCat23 3 years ago 2
holy fuck!
BELTED007 3 years ago
Yep he's right... no such thing as a mini-tornado... these were microbursts which come under the term 'straight line winds'.
Anyway... I've shown this video to heaps of people, and they're just amazed!
brizwx 3 years ago
It could have been a mini-tornado? Sierranope, it could have been a mini-hurricane? or maybe a mini-cyclone? or a mini-typhoon?
Yeah, I reckon it was a mini-tornado and a major disaster.
MyBadCat23 3 years ago
You're a lucky person - making this video at the height of the storm was very brave - especially with those big glass windows. Glad to see you didn't get too much damage though. The Gap is a whole other story tho'. But you know, Kevin 727 flew in to state the bleeding obvious today "well it looks like a war zone" ... God he's clever.
I hope all the people with damage get it fixed quickly.
Bloody Australia - don't ya love it - it's either drought or terrifying winds, hail and rain.
MyBadCat23 3 years ago
so true i got a tornado last year a nice flood and one heck of a hailstorm! this is just another storm here in aus
budgiebreder 3 years ago
Unreal
valhemp 3 years ago
Wow, just like a mini-tornado
aus2045 3 years ago
For the record, there is NO such thing as a mini-tornado! It is either a tornado or it isn't. I am fed up with the media sprouting out this term and its about time they were taught a lesson. The winds above are consistent what we is called straight line winds, which is a result of a downburst from a storm. I would estimate those winds to be in the order of 150 to 200km/hr.
gstormc 3 years ago
That sounds consistant with a mini-tornado. I used to live and Brisbane, and we used to get them every summer.
aus2045 3 years ago
ummmm dude calm down! are you a expert on the matter? and btw there are mini-tornads!!!
sierranope 3 years ago
I am a weather nerd, I chase storms as a hobby. I am well educated enough to tell you that there are NO such thing as mini-tornadoes! It is either a tornado or it isn't. End of story.
gstormc 3 years ago
he probably means an F0 or F1.
MDHmodder 3 years ago 2
Sorry to burst your bubble champ... "mini tornado" is a term used by the media for anything with strong winds.. according to the media only the USA gets tornado's... Australia DOES in fact receive them however 99% of them go undocumented due to being in rural areas. This storm produced very strong microbursts in this footage, that's all... no "mini tornado".
weathermon 3 years ago 2
yes australia does get them there was one a while back in sydney and last year one hit a town not far from where i live called dunoon. i'd say it was at least f2 coz of the fact it destroyed the town's church and riped roofs of houses (not sure what's what on the scale)
budgiebreder 3 years ago
i wouldn't disagree with those wind speeds!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
PS This is fantastic footage, I would have ran away from the windows when the tramp was coming for me tho! Thanks for sharing!
1968garfield 3 years ago
OMFG! Bugger the fact it should have been more secured, how the hell were you supposed to know that the storm would be strong enough to move the tramp like that. After seeing the destruction at The Gap, I now know what Mum and Dad went through.
1968garfield 3 years ago
no time to sucure it even if you'd have known how strong it was
budgiebreder 3 years ago
mmhmm i live on top of the hill at the gap.......enough said
91greigm 3 years ago 2
Farrrrrrr out at that rain/wind!!!! ferocious stuff!!! PS - that rain is what it was like during the Mackay floods here back in Feb
weathermon 3 years ago
The rain was probably not quite up to the 900mm Mackay levels, however, during storm we got 220mm in 20 minutes which is probably the same rate as Mackay during its worst hour. I measured this in our garbage bin around the back of the house. After the Wednesday storms we had 390mm in total.
sandra00074 3 years ago
OMG that was amazing! i live over at jamboree Heights, west brissy. we only got the early stages of that storm. it wasn't as intense as that. Hope your doing okay
bradjl82 3 years ago 2
that storm was insane you could barely see 10m! i was looking across roof top a car park watching trolleys have races! i know one car got hit but i couldn't see any others to see if they were hit!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
Awesome video! That was simply amazing! Lucky the windows didn't break!
brizwx 3 years ago 2
excellent footage, hope ur tramp isnt beyond repair!! i thought it was comin through the window there for a second!
aspyre0411 3 years ago 2
I think it was!!! LOL
1968garfield 3 years ago
hope all is well that storm was huge! i stood in a rooftop for about 10 min(all the time i had) before it hit and took photos with my sis it was freezing! then when it hit we (sis mum and i)helped people into cars quickly. them loading the kids us loading the groceries. we were at a shopping centre and had our car undercover and were waiting it out that one was huge!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
Please URGENTLY contact Peter Doherty from Seven News Brisbane - 3369 7777. Your video is awesome.
btq7 3 years ago
This is why authorities such as the SES and Energex advise householders to secure outdoor items before a storm arrives, as they can become potentially deadly missiles -- imagine if that gas cylinder went through the window? Irresponsible.
seo75 3 years ago
I think considering how fast this thing hit, not to mention the amount of possible missiles there are to fasten down, it's a bit unfair to say this person is irresponsible. and how exactly is someone supposed to fasten down a trampoline? We tried everything to fasten down objects and it did nothing. People have enough to deal with, without negative comments, and I'm sure lessons have been learned.
mullalyl 3 years ago 3
you turn it over and stick something real heavy on it but that takes ages! that is why i got rid of mine! but i was there and i know how quick that storm hit i don't blame you there wasn't any time!
read my above comment for an understanding of how quick it hit!
budgiebreder 3 years ago 2
With those nets around it, there would have been no time to do that, but with normal ones, great idea!
1968garfield 3 years ago
true but hey that is what i was always taught to do it also protects it from the hail coz it cannot get through so no holes! it does work but there are different types(like this one) that it is almost impossible to do it with and then there are those that have a big hole cut for them in the ground it is very herd to flip them over coz you have to get them out of the hole!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
...As MY video starts off just after our HEAVILLY nailed down shadecloth blew away like a sail, as did the next door neighbours; there is NO WAY any of us can BEAT natures force.
smackc4 3 years ago
i've seen yours and yea it was blowing hard and came down fast! i had parked my car (undercover at a shopping center) then run to the rooftop parking to have a quick look then i ran to coles(where most people were) and warned about 6 of the storm then i went outside the store and up the escalator (right next door) back to the rooftop parking the storm had hit and hit hard! the time between when we parked the car to when i got onto the roof the second time wasn't much more than 10 min! it was big
budgiebreder 3 years ago
no time trust me i was there!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
Probably wouldn't have made a difference anyway you toolio.....
jemibanez 3 years ago
did it get cold?
alfdepalm 3 years ago
yes
that storm was big! i was there by fluke! i live 3 hrs away in lismore nsw and was there getting a formal dress we turned around after watching it get worse and went back to the shop with undercover parking!(we were headed back to my sis's place (middle of city)(btw it was 15 min trip and we wouldn't have made it. built up real quick!) mum my sis and i split up and at least 10 families got their cars undercover coz we'd warned them or the danger-storm and that sucker was swirling like mad!
budgiebreder 3 years ago
The air wasn't all that cold, about 22C, but the ground was covered in ice and cold on the feet.
sandra00074 3 years ago
Great video! Your so lucky that trampoline didn't go through your window. Hope all is well !
peakman7 3 years ago