Mansfield, Victoria Australia Tornado October 1 2011

About 1.30 today we noticed a rogue cell with very dark base suddenly forming to our NE which quickly intensified moving SW. Then out of the blue two ccs followed by flangs. Within a few minutes a funnel started to form below the base of the cell and started to lower. Then bang... Very clear and solid rotation! This lasted on and off for maybe 10 minutes before it moved behind the hills in front of us.

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• Mansfield Tornado
• Tornado Australia
• Tornado Lake Eildon
• Twister
• funnel
• Mansfield
• Victoria

[anthonystjohn]

Thanks Roger keep looking ..it took me 46 years!

[anthonystjohn]

Ange...no this is Mansfield Victoria, australia

[anthonystjohn]

Cheers Guys...this was so spectacular to witness. Just wished I know what was going happening on the other side of that ridge. Someone on that side reported a "massive" hail event around the same time.

[GREENVK]

Top stuff! I so wish I wasn't at work that day!

[rogeressig]

excellento! a rare gem to get on video. i've given myself 10 years to do such a thing, i have 9 years left!

[AngelDestler08]

Can someone please confirm if this was Mansfield TX

[naf3ts97]

awesome ;)

[DAVJR17]

right place & time.. well done nice capture

[Xebadir]

Very little possibility that this circulation wasn't on the ground. The upper level funnel rotation is such that there would have been vortices on the surface at a minimum. Excellent work capturing this. Bravo.

[mrskeggster]

Wow - very awesome!

Would love to do a damage survey - see whether there's evidence on the ground.