September 21- HP Supercell near Rathdowney QLD Australia (1)

An afternoon of unseasonally high September temperatures combined with a developing trough and very juicy dew points created conditions ideal for some big storms.

This storm began to rapidly intensify at this point.. then went on to produce dangerous flash flooding..destructive straight line winds and golf ball sized hail a little further north.

I took some shelter a few mins away to see what it was capable of unleashing.. (See other videos) then unsuccessfully attempted to core punch this continually intensifying beast to try and get ahead of it again.. but I was forced to pull over to the side of the road with hazard lights on.. like many other drivers (See other videos in my channel).

When the Bureau of Meteorology in Brisbane were issuing warnings for this particular storm it was labelled as a "very dangerous storm".

Please watch part 2 of this storm which shows the gust front really getting its act together!

Additionally it went on to dump 43mm's (nearly 2 inches) of rain in under 30 minutes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hp
• supercell
• severe
• thunderstorm
• rathdowney
• beaudesert
• qld
• australia
• meso
• mesocyclone
• outflow
• wind
• winds
• hail
• ipswich

[supercell1995]

i have always been wondering, how can austrailia be under a drought? it doesn't matter if you don't have rain. you are surrounded by giant body of water which is the ocean. why can't you guys make some sort of plant where you can purify salt water, like we do here. (i don't know the name of the plant)

anyways nice video 5 stars.

[Hinezy77]

Yeah there's been talk about that.. the public doesn't seem to keen tho' for some reason.

In general.. the Australian government is just too dumb to know where the right places to build dams are. It actually rains quite a bit where the dams aren't.

[tommytheparrot1]

@supercell1995 Desalinization plants are really expensive and there juat arent enough accessable locations fo them to be placed without them being disturbers of of peace in towns or cities.

[siderealspace]

Hey! I can see your finger xD Amazing, congratulations ;)

[inuyashafangirl1]

Well we are the DRYEST continent on earth. Our rainfall is nowhere near the rest of the world, and consequently we suffer from drought.

[fishyglen]

thats just like a joke i heard it goes the

1construction of the dam is ahead of scheduale

2why is that

3no rain delays