Australian Weather News -- 20 OCT 2001

Australian Weather News

Saturday, 20 OCT 2001

Heavy early morning storms on northern NSW and SE Qld coasts

An isolated storm at Coffs Harbour NSW produced 39.6mm at the airport in the hour to 1am this morning. The airport of several kilometres south of the city. In the city's northwest, Perry Drive recorded 32.5mm and Shepherd's Lane 29.8mm0 between 11pm and 1am. Little cloud or weather of note occurred anywhere else in the state, and the storm appears to have been locally generated as a significant upper trough passed across.

A similarly isolated event occurred at Heron Island, 80km NE of Gladstone Qld. A violent storm developed explosively between Gladstone and the island around midnight as the upper trough and remnants of a surface trough moved off the southeast Queenland coast. The research station on the island recorded a wind gust of 102km/h at 1.24am, followed by 13.4mm of rain in the six minutes to 1.31am. A total of 34.4mm fell in the hour to 2am.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 02:29 EDST on 23/10/01
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. 76.2 WILDMAN RANGERS Darwin-Daly NT 65.4 EL QUESTRO N Kimberley WA 54.6 MCMINNS LAGOON Darwin-Daly NT 46.0 BATCHELOR AERO Darwin-Daly NT 43.6 COFFS HARBOUR MO MidNorth Coast N NSW *WESTERN AUSTRALIA* *N Kimberley* 65.4 EL QUESTRO *NORTHERN TERRITORY* Darwin-Daly 76.2 WILDMAN RANGERS 54.6 MCMINNS LAGOON 46.0 BATCHELOR AERO *NEW SOUTH WALES* MidNorth Coast N 43.6 COFFS HARBOUR MO	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *NORTHERN TERRITORY* *Darwin-Daly* DARWIN AIRPORT 13.0mm in 30 min to 00:00 26.0mm/h 13.0mm in 1 hr to 00:30 13.0mm/h *QUEENSLAND* *Wide Bay/Burnett* HERON ISLAND RES STN 10.2mm in 24 min to 01:24 25.5mm/h 1.6mm in 1 min to 01:25 96.0mm/h 13.4mm in 6 min to 01:31 134.0mm/h 34.4mm in 1 hr to 02:00 34.4mm/h 36.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 12.0mm/h *NEW SOUTH WALES* *MidNorth Coast N* COFFS HARBOUR MO 20.2mm in 30 min to 00:30 40.4mm/h 23.6mm in 1 hr to 00:30 23.6mm/h 19.4mm in 30 min to 01:00 38.8mm/h 39.6mm in 1 hr to 01:00 39.6mm/h 19.6mm in 1 hr to 01:30 19.6mm/h 40.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 13.3mm/h *ISLANDS* *Islands* NORFOLK ISLAND AERO 13.6mm in 1 hr to 21:00 13.6mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
40.0 FITZROY CROSSING AERO W Kimberley WA 39.0 CADJEBUT W Kimberley WA 39.0 BRADSHAW Darwin-Daly NT 38.4 CURTIN AERO W Kimberley WA 38.4 DOUGLAS RIVER Darwin-Daly NT	28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR 27.9 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA 27.0 WYNDHAM AERO N Kimberley WA 27.0 KALUMBURU N Kimberley WA 27.0 PORT KEATS AERO Darwin-Daly NT
3.1 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 5.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC 5.7 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS 6.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 7.0 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC	-7.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW -5.5 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW -4.6 FALLS CREEK Upper NE VIC -4.0 CABRAMURRA SMHEA AWS SW Slopes S NSW -4.0 MOUNT BULLER Upper NE VIC
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+6.3 27.4 ESPERANCE SW & S Coast WA +6.2 28.8 EYRE Eucla WA +6.1 26.8 KATANNING COMPARISON Gt Southern WA +6.1 27.1 ONGERUP Gt Southern WA +5.8 29.0 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. Goldfields WA	+6.5 14.0 SALMON GUMS RES.STN. Goldfields WA +6.0 21.0 WARBURTON AIRFIELD Interior WA +5.7 14.6 RAVENSTHORPE Gt Southern WA +5.6 15.0 MERREDIN Cent Wheatbelt WA +5.3 14.5 SOUTHERN CROSS Goldfields WA
-8.0 23.4 CURTIN SPRINGS Alice Springs NT -7.0 28.0 MARDIE W Pilbara WA -6.6 17.5 MURRURUNDI POST OFFICE Hunter Valley NSW -6.5 16.2 PEATS RIDGE (WARATAH ROAD) Hunter Valley NSW -5.9 22.4 TIBOOBURRA POST OFFICE Far Northwest NSW -5.9 12.4 OMEO Upper NE VIC	-9.8 1.5 ARKAROOLA NE Pastoral SA -9.0 -3.9 WOOLBROOK (DANGLEMAH ROAD) NW Slopes S NSW -8.9 1.5 PARKES (MACARTHUR STREET) CW Slopes S NSW -8.9 -0.2 QUANDIALLA POST OFFICE SW Slopes N NSW -8.8 -1.7 NHILL Wimmera N VIC
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. HERON ISLAND RES STN Wide Bay/Burnett QLD: 102 (210/ 33 ) at 01:24 WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE W Gippsland VIC: 72 (230/ 67 ) at 00:57	Other extremes ..