They aren't common because we don't have the geographical and meteorolocigal combinations that you have in the US, but they aren't as rare as people think. I've seen and photographed a waterspout off Sydney, and Dubbo got whacked by a small tornado a few years ago.
These photographs inspired a very vivid dream while I was napping today, of a tornado over the ocean somewhere. Not a bad dream, it was quite interesting; I have an unhealthy fascination with tornadoes.
I was sitting here thinking, "that's exactly the kind of supercell that generates tornadoes," then I got to the one with the funnel cloud. You can see that the wind force is ahead of the cloud, because it's already pulling up dust at the ground level. Impressive shots, all of them!
Found more here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jamestorm/bristorm.html
Pretty crazy, I've never seen clouds like that before, but then here it's so hilly that the horizon blocks out a lot of stuff. Looks like stuff you might see out towards Oklahoma where it is super flat. There is definately a tornado there, F1 or F2 most likely. The one where the clouds are almost hitting the ground, that looks like it was damn nearly an F5, which would have obiterated everything in it's path with 200+ MPH winds. If it didn't turn into one, they were damn lucky.
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I wasn't aware that you get tornadoes in Australia. Are they common?
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These photographs inspired a very vivid dream while I was napping today, of a tornado over the ocean somewhere. Not a bad dream, it was quite interesting; I have an unhealthy fascination with tornadoes.
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I was sitting here thinking, "that's exactly the kind of supercell that generates tornadoes," then I got to the one with the funnel cloud. You can see that the wind force is ahead of the cloud, because it's already pulling up dust at the ground level. Impressive shots, all of them!
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If the pictures were taken in QLD I wonder if that wasn't the same freakish supercell that dropped a number of inches of snow-like hail on em?
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Pretty crazy, I've never seen clouds like that before, but then here it's so hilly that the horizon blocks out a lot of stuff. Looks like stuff you might see out towards Oklahoma where it is super flat. There is definately a tornado there, F1 or F2 most likely. The one where the clouds are almost hitting the ground, that looks like it was damn nearly an F5, which would have obiterated everything in it's path with 200+ MPH winds. If it didn't turn into one, they were damn lucky.
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