Australian Weather News -- 21 SEP 2001

Australian Weather News

Friday, 21 SEP 2001

Storms bring heavy falls to NE Victoria

A marked middle atmosphere trough lying above the tail of a weak surface front brought thunderstorms and several hours of heavy rain to Victoria's northeast this morning. Falls Creek recorded 50mm between midnight and 6am, with many centres in or just west of the Alps recording 40mm or more in the 24 hours to 9am. The modest surface cool change swept across Victoria's Gippsland yesterday afternoon and evening, leaving a nearly stationary surface trough stranded to the north of the Great Divide. Instability was not particularly great, but the thermal difference across the trough was, with overnight minima across southern NSW around 8° above normal while those in southern Victoria and Tasmania were 4 to 6 below. A very sharp trough at 500hPa (around 18,000 feet) was evident over NE Victoria on the upper charts for 10pm Thursday, and heavy rain appears to have resulted from strong convergence into the trough.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 16:41 EDST on 23/09/01
Quality control note: Data is complete, and has been visually checked by AWN for gross errors. Less obvious errors may remain. See Explanation of Extremes Pages for more information
Records set this day (none known)
Todays highest rainfall totals for the 24 hours to 9am. It includes the top 5 totals received, and/or all reported falls of 50mm or more. 54.0 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC 52.6 OVENS RIVER (HARRIETVILLE) Upper NE VIC 50.4 WHITLANDS (BURDER'S LANE) Upper NE VIC 47.2 MOUNT BUFFALO CHALET Upper NE VIC 37.8 HARRIETVILLE Upper NE VIC *VICTORIA* Upper NE 54.0 FALLS CREEK 52.6 OVENS RIVER (HARRIETVILLE) 50.4 WHITLANDS (BURDER'S LANE) 47.2 MOUNT BUFFALO CHALET 37.8 HARRIETVILLE	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *VICTORIA* *Upper NE* FALLS CREEK 31.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 10.3mm/h 19.0mm in 3 hr to 06:00 6.3mm/h MT HOTHAM 15.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 5.0mm/h *W Gippsland* YARRAM (YARRAM CFA) 10.0mm in 10 min to 15:57 60.0mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
39.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 39.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 38.2 ARGYLE AERODROME E Kimberley WA 38.2 CURTIN AERO W Kimberley WA 38.2 KIMBERLEY RES.STATION E Kimberley WA	26.0 MCCLUER ISLAND Darwin-Daly NT 26.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR 26.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 25.8 TROUGHTON ISLAND N Kimberley WA 25.0 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA
7.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 7.1 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 8.0 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 8.0 HARTZ MOUNTAIN(KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS 8.3 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC	-4.5 LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Central Plateau TAS -3.6 LIAWENEE AWS Central Plateau TAS -3.0 WARATAH (WILLIAM STREET) W Coast TAS -2.5 CRADLE MOUNTAIN AIRSTRIP Central Plateau TAS -2.0 BUSHY PARK (BUSHY PARK ESTATES) Derwent Valley TAS
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+10.3 31.3 BROKEN HILL (PATTON STREET) Lower Darling NSW +10.1 35.5 MARREE NE Pastoral SA +9.6 34.0 TIBOOBURRA POST OFFICE Far Northwest NSW +9.4 30.0 HAY (MILLER STREET) Riverina W NSW +9.2 33.5 ANDAMOOKA NW Pastoral SA	+10.4 21.6 OODNADATTA AIRPORT NE Pastoral SA +9.9 21.8 CARNEGIE Interior WA +9.9 17.8 MENINDEE POST OFFICE Lower Darling NSW +9.7 19.2 LEIGH CREEK AIRPORT NE Pastoral SA +9.7 14.0 RUTHERGLEN RESEARCH Lower NE VIC
-7.3 20.0 CURTIN SPRINGS Alice Springs NT -6.3 26.0 MARDIE W Pilbara WA -5.7 24.1 WATARRKA Alice Springs NT -3.3 25.8 ONSLOW W Pilbara WA -3.2 30.5 MANDORA E Pilbara WA	-6.7 10.9 ELLIOTT Barkly NT -6.4 1.0 FLINDERS ISLAND AIRPORT Flinders Is/Bass St TAS -5.9 -2.0 BUSHY PARK (BUSHY PARK ESTATES) Derwent Valley TAS -5.4 3.2 PHILLIP ISLAND PENGUIN RESERVE E Central VIC -5.2 4.9 JURIEN Lower West WA
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. HARTZ MOUNTAIN(KEOGHS PIMPLE) Southeast TAS: 93 (270/ 67 ) at 07:00	Other extremes ..