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

At this stage (approx 1:30pm) this first supercell of the afternoon really began to take shape. Inflow was already extreme with piles of dust being drawn into the rapidly developing storm. Driving was becoming dangerous with branches, small pieces of debris all part of the inflow feed.

This particular storm was reported to have produced a tornado at Womblepong which was near where this video was filmed.

This storm would go on to produce winds near 130km/h and cause significant damage.

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Science & Technology

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• inflow
• dust
• storm
• brisbane
• supercell
• strong
• damaging
• violent
• dangerous
• wind
• qld
• queensland
• Australia
• thunderstorm
• thunder

[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..

[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.

[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.

[millsy351]

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

[oriongirlfan]

faces in the clouds!

[tnobe3]

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

[vrednie]

@Dettyletty Me too dickhead

[Dettyletty]

@vrednie

Well I hate to tell you that I live there.

[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.

[Kazekane]

@Kazekane 0:48

[Kazekane]

0:50 face

[WetPooooopie]

cxreepy

[Dettyletty]

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

[doodlestroodle]

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

[BurnoutRacer2009]

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