brisbane storm 16th nov 2008

Suspicious, but appears to be a tornado look alike.  Good supercell

Not quite a tornado - if you're interested, the Bureau of Meteorology Australia has a page of info on it. It created a microburst over one of the Brisbane suburbs doing quite a bit of damage. This was an amazing storm :)

it's normal for a supercell to rotate, yes, but not your stock standard storm no.

is it normal for it to do so in many places around the cloud? (not just around one specific point - but around several)

Yup that's what it makes a storm a supercell. Because the whole thunderstorm is rotating. If the whole system is rotating, part of the storm where the winds are rotating the most start spinning even faster. That's when you see a wall cloud and a mesocyclone form, when you see cloud lowerings rotating around part of the storm where rain's not falling, there's a good chance of a tornado forming (usually on the northern edge).

I don't reckon this is a tornado but it's very close!

i was there for this and i don't remember seeing this part of the cloud or any tornado for that matter. it rained so much you couldn't see more than 10-20 meters (when it lightened off a little) there was hail too (pea size where i was but it got alot bigger elsewhere!) anyway i'm always going to take cover if i see could like that.

@budgiebreder

Take it from someone who was at The Gap & Ferny Hills at the time, it certainly did get a lot bigger than that. It was absolutely nuts. Our house in Ferny Hills got pummeled, and visibility was down to maybe 1-2 metres at one point - There was just so much wind, water and hail you couldn't see a thing.

there was so much rain where i was you couldn't see further than a few meters most of the time. small hail but ALOT OF RAIN. and watching another video (from the gap) it well it was nuts!

the guy's an uneducated fool!!, uh idiot, watch the clouds rotating, and tell me that it's not usual for clouds to do that....duh

she was rotating and yes there was atornado