Brisbane Storm 16 Nov 2008 - Right in it !!!

Newsworthy storm rips through Brisbane. Surely this is the 1 in 100 year storm for Brisbane, an amazing show from Mother Nature leaves Brisbane shaking.

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[GraveyardGoth187]

HI! I am an Storm cheaser form Germany! I want to know some thing!

1st!) Has do you seen an Funnel or an Rotation Cloud Formation?

2nd!) Has do you Informations for me theat it can be an Cyclone?

3rd!) How Intense was the Rain and the Lightning Activity?

I am Happy if you can Answhere me theat Questions, I need it to Analysed this

Freaky Wheaher Situation by you in Australia.

For ouer German Forum of Skywarn Germany! Thax

Greats

Jenny!

[a234fg]

Perhaps you can get actual event details at Australia Weather site BOM . I tend to think that we use the term cyclone in Australia for any major storm, even though what we had may not have technically been a cyclone.

[casperblackcat1975]

Awesome video thanks for posting I have a whole heap of these videos in my favourites.

[benjaminpyke]

What suburb was this filmed in?

[ozigal1]

wow. that is awesome!! i thought our super cell storm here in melbourne was cool. nothing compared to that

[vrednie]

@GraveyardGoth187 No it was not a cyclone. It was a microburst. The peak wind speed measured in the worst affected suburb (the Gap) at the height of the storm was 173 kph.

[terrastrega]

@slyraventhefirst Don't worry about how late this reply is, I for one enjoyed the information. :)

[jformaldehydem]

@GraveyardGoth187 3) The storm caused flash flooding in the gap area. I wasn't specifically in the area at the time but from a distance I remember a lot of lightning.

[jformaldehydem]

@GraveyardGoth187 2) It wasn't a cyclone but a supercell, from other footage I've seen it was most likely a microburst. We do get a few cyclones every year in Australia, but down in Brisbane we usually only get the outer rim with winds up to 60km/h or so. Occasionally the cyclones will spawn supercells in the outer rim though so we can see storms like this as the result of a cyclone.

[jformaldehydem]

@GraveyardGoth187

1) We do often get tornados in Australia, but since our population is mostly coastal and the tornados occurr inland, they mostly go unwitnessed. I've lived in Brisbane/Gold Coast all my life and I've seen a few funnel clouds but no touchdowns...one got pretty close. Touchdowns in populated areas are extremely rare.

[slyraventhefirst]

@GraveyardGoth187 This storm was actually a Super Cell, rather than a cyclone, it turns out.

And yes, I'm replying to a comment two years old. XD

[gpartrt]

@GraveyardGoth18the clouds from this storm came around the left and right of my house at the same time then joined in front of it!! it was amazing and then all hell broke loose it was intense!

[Merudo]

@GraveyardGoth187

hi mate, you can find more info about this storm from the Australian Bureau of Meterology website here

bom.gov.au/qld/cyclone/thunder­storms/16Nov2008/qldth20081116­.shtml

Cheers