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Ne NSW Storms Feb 20, 2012

· by Kane Hardie

Grafton, NSW

I chased a storm to Grafton which  although small had some nice structure. Early on when it was west of Corindai it seemed to have a wall cloud structure?

Later the storm was holding solid structure near Grafton.

I then made my way back down the coast to Woolgoolga and intercepted this monster shelf! Heard reports of strong winds and hail from this further down the coast.

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6 comments

  4. Awesome stuff Kane, well captured.

    You didn’t happen to be around Coffs during that right moving supercell on the 11th February did you? I have only seen one video of it, from Grafton, and the lightning rates in it were incredible.

  5. Hey ben, I did photograph that storm actually, Ill make report for that too, although my shots arent the greatest as I was at woolgoolga again but on the crappy side for stucture. The lightning rates were crazy in that storm although I only could see cc due to low clouds obscuring my view.

  6. I happened to be passing the same area and managed to snap a few pics. The storm certianly seemed to organise nicely once it came off the ranges, glad you were able to get some footage Kane

    over ranges west of coffs

    http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/DavJR17/2012%20%20various/20th1-15NSW.jpg

    storm to east of grafton

    http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/DavJR17/2012%20%20various/20th2-45NSW.jpg

    40 min later looking Sth from near Maclean

    http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/DavJR17/2012%20%20various/20th3-20NSW.jpg

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