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TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - MELBOURNE AREA
for DAMAGING WIND, FLASH FLOODING and LARGE HAILSTONES
For people in the
Inner,
Eastern,
Northern and parts of the
Outer East Local Warning Areas.
Issued at 7:19 pm Sunday, 25 December 2011.
The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 7:15 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Craigieburn, Doncaster, Greensborough, Preston, Ringwood, Scoresby, the area east of Healesville and the area east of Gisborne.
These thunderstorms are moving towards the east.
They are forecast to affect Hurstbridge, Lilydale, Mt Dandenong, Whittlesea, Yarra Glen and the area south of Whittlesea by 7:45 pm and Healesville and Yarra Junction by 8:15 pm.
Damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones are likely.
A tornado has been reported near Fiskville (15km west of Bacchus Marsh). Wind gust of 109km/h recorded 17:42EST at Tullamarine. Golf ball size hail reported at Diamond Creek 17:10EST.
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TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
for DAMAGING WIND, FLASH FLOODING and LARGE HAILSTONES
For people in the Central, Mallee, Northern Country, North Central, West and South Gippsland and parts of the East Gippsland, South West, North East and Wimmera Forecast Districts.
Issued at 6:54 pm Sunday, 25 December 2011.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Mildura, Horsham, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton, Seymour, Maryborough, Geelong, Melbourne, Wangaratta, Traralgon and Bairnsdale.
Note, thunderstorms in the northwest are more likely to produce strong winds. The activity in the south is more likely to produce very large hail, flash flooding and damaging winds.
Torrential rain in the past few hours. Is there anymore thunderstorm activity expected behind this main storm??
