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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
New South Wales
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
for LARGE HAILSTONES, DESTRUCTIVE WIND and VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
For people in the
Central West Plains,
Central West Slopes,
Illawarra,
Central Tablelands,
Riverina,
South West Slopes,
Southern Tablelands,
the ACT and parts of the
South Coast Forecast Districts.
Issued at 1:37 PM Thursday, 20 January 2005.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce large hailstones, destructive winds and very heavy rainfall in the warning area over the next several hours.
Major locations within the warning area include Canberra, Goulburn, Yass, Wagga Wagga, Griffith and Katoomba.
Thunderstorms today have already produced large hail near Berrigan and Leeton in the Riverina. Damaging wind gusts to 124 km/h have been recorded at Yanco.