Australian Weather News -- 12 APR 2002

Australian Weather News

Friday, 12 APR 2002

Storms in Vic, SA
NEWSBITS: Heavy showers, storms NT Top End and N Qld coast

An area of active storms crossed western Victoria during the late afternoon and evening giving localised heavy rain and strong wind gusts together with some spectacular electrical activity. Cloud tops to 12km were reported over the Otways by the Bureau of Meteorology around 6pm. Bendigo Airport reported a wind gust of 106km/h at 5.33pm, while Hamilton Airport recorded 20mm of rain during the storm, though heavier rain is believed to have fallen in the area. Earlier in the day, storms were widespread though innocuous in SA. An excellent analysis of the event from a forecaster's perspective, by Kevin Parkyn is here.

NEWSBITS: An upper trough with enhanced instability lying across the Northern Territory Top End again produced scattered storms with moderate rainfalls today. A moist strong and gusty ESE stream onto the north Queensland coast brought 50 to 65mm of rain to the area around Innisfail for the 24 hours to 9am, and further moderate falls of 30 to 75mm for the 24 hours to 9am Saturday. Innisfail, Tully and particularly the mountainside settlement of Topaz benefit from orographically enhanced rainfall in ESE airstream situations such as this. Tropical Cyclone Bonnie continued to move steadily westwards well to the north of WA maintaining a central pressure of 985hPa during the day.

National weather extremes for today Data provided by the Bureau of Meteorology Last updated at 17:07 EDST on 13/04/02
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 (not checked or entered yet)
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. 64.0 TOPAZ N Coast--Barron QLD 58.0 TULLY MCQUILLAN ST N Coast--Herbert QLD 55.0 TOPAZ ALERT N Coast--Barron QLD 54.6 INNISFAIL N Coast--Herbert QLD 52.0 TULLY TM N Coast--Herbert QLD *QUEENSLAND* N Coast--Barron 64.0 TOPAZ 55.0 TOPAZ ALERT N Coast--Herbert 58.0 TULLY MCQUILLAN ST 54.6 INNISFAIL 52.0 TULLY TM 50.0 TULLY SUGAR MILL	High rainfall for periods of 6 hours or less. *NORTHERN TERRITORY* *Arnhem* MILINGIMBI 15.0mm in 3 hr to 17:30 5.0mm/h GOVE AIRPORT 17.6mm in 30 min to 02:30 35.2mm/h 17.8mm in 1 hr to 02:30 17.8mm/h 27.0mm in 3 hr to 02:30 9.0mm/h 22.0mm in 1 hr to 03:00 22.0mm/h NARAWILLI 16.0mm in 3 hr to 11:30 5.3mm/h *Darwin-Daly* JABIRU AIRPORT 15.8mm in 1 hr to 18:30 15.8mm/h 25.0mm in 3 hr to 20:30 8.3mm/h CAPE DON 18.0mm in 3 hr to 13:30 6.0mm/h 22.0mm in 3 hr to 14:30 7.3mm/h 15.0mm in 3 hr to 15:30 5.0mm/h *QUEENSLAND* *N Peninsula* HORN ISLAND 6.6mm in 19 min to 02:00 20.8mm/h 17.0mm in 3 hr to 03:00 5.7mm/h *N Coast--Herbert* INNISFAIL 32.0mm in 3 hr to 09:00 10.7mm/h *Brisbane/SE Coast* CAPE MORETON LIGHTHOUSE 23.4mm in 34 min to 23:48 41.3mm/h 6.0mm in 8 min to 23:56 45.0mm/h *VICTORIA* *W Coast* COLAC (MT GELLIBRAND) 10.0mm in 1 hr to 19:30 10.0mm/h HAMILTON AIRPORT 20.4mm in 1 hr 30 min to 18:00 13.6mm/h 20.0mm in 3 hr to 18:00 6.7mm/h AIREYS INLET 11.6mm in 30 min to 20:00 23.2mm/h 12.0mm in 1 hr to 20:00 12.0mm/h 13.0mm in 1 hr to 20:30 13.0mm/h
Todays highest & lowest temperatures
Maximum	Minimum
41.0 ROEBOURNE AERO E Pilbara WA 40.9 ROEBOURNE E Pilbara WA 40.5 PANNAWONICA W Pilbara WA 39.5 MARBLE BAR COMPARISON E Pilbara WA 39.5 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA 39.5 GASCOYNE JUNCTION W Gascoyne WA	29.1 WITTENOOM W Pilbara WA 29.0 COCONUT ISLAND N Peninsula QLD 28.0 NORTHERN ENDEAVOUR Islands 26.6 DERBY AERO W Kimberley WA 26.4 WYNDHAM POST OFFICE N Kimberley WA
12.7 MOUNT READ W Coast TAS 14.3 MAATSUYKER ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE Southeast TAS 14.8 MT HOTHAM Upper NE VIC 15.0 THREDBO (CRACKENBACK STATION) AWS Snowy Mtns NSW 15.1 MOUNT WELLINGTON Southeast TAS	3.0 ST HELENS AERODROME E Coast TAS 3.1 COOMA VISITORS CENTRE Goulburn/Monaro NSW 3.8 CHARLOTTE PASS (KOSCIUSKO CHALET) Snowy Mtns NSW 4.0 THREDBO VILLAGE Snowy Mtns NSW 4.4 OMEO Upper NE VIC
Todays greatest temperature variations from normal
Maximum	Minimum
+10.8 28.0 WILSONS PROMONTORY LIGHTHOUSE W Gippsland VIC +10.7 36.0 MENINDEE POST OFFICE Lower Darling NSW +10.2 35.6 IVANHOE POST OFFICE Southwest Plains NSW +10.0 34.0 HAY (MILLER STREET) Riverina W NSW +9.7 33.0 GRIFFITH AIRPORT AWS Riverina W NSW	+9.8 18.0 LOXTON RESEARCH CENTRE Upper Murray SA +9.3 21.0 BROKEN HILL (PATTON STREET) Lower Darling NSW +9.1 22.0 WOOMERA AERODROME NW Pastoral SA +8.8 22.4 TIBOOBURRA POST OFFICE Far Northwest NSW +8.7 18.1 OUYEN (POST OFFICE) Mallee N VIC
-3.7 28.4 ELCHO ISLAND Arnhem NT -2.8 30.4 ONSLOW W Pilbara WA -2.8 21.7 POLDA (GUM VIEW) W Agricultural SA -2.1 21.0 ESPERANCE SW & S Coast WA -1.9 21.7 RAVENSTHORPE Gt Southern WA	-4.8 10.6 GERALDTON AIRPORT Central West WA -3.8 5.0 JARRAHWOOD SW & S Coast WA -3.2 10.8 PEARCE RAAF Lower West WA -3.0 11.0 CARNAMAH Central West WA -2.8 16.8 DENHAM W Gascoyne WA
Highest wind gusts above 89km/h or mean wind above 62km/h (gale force). Wind direction and mean windspeed shown in brackets. ROXBY DOWNS (OLYMPIC DAM AERODROME) NW Pastoral SA : 82 ( 10/ 69 ) at 16:04 BENDIGO AIRPORT Upper North VIC: 106 (160/ 28 ) at 17:33	Other extremes ..