14 April 2008 Dangerous Storm QLD Australia Logan / Redlands

Some nice cooling of the upper levels happened in the NE New South Wales and South East corner of QLD and later in the day the Wide Bay & Burnett Regions.

With modest instability..juicy CAPE and these cooling uppers early in the afternoon, some small but intense thunderstorms started to develop.

The main cell developed around 3pm around the northern Gold Coast Hinterland and quickly exploded into a hail dumping small supercell which was producing an incredible amount of Cloud to Ground Lightning strikes along its merry way!

This particular storm developed on the eastern side of the ranges and took a more or less N-NE path. This put it on a collision course with the Redlands area and parts of South-East Brisbane.

Numerous power outages were reported from these areas, no doubt due to the frequent lightning... which was quite close at times and was averaging around 4 per minute where i was at one stage!

Can't complain at all given the time of year!

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• australia
• hail
• queensland
• qld
• inflow

[poodlebreathe]

lol, i've been up that road a thousand times, its near sheldon right?? i went up it today ^^