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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.

Was driving home along Canterbury Rd when the storm hit mid SW Sydney. No hail, but the wind was enough to rock the car around quite a bit at the lights. Unfortunately, rain/storms turn your averge Sydney driver into a dribbling idiot.

Scenario:

Wind whips large sheet of corrigated iron onto Canterbury Rd, blocking both lanes of westbound traffic (fortunately I was heading east). Cars, trucks & buses sitting there waiting for said piece iron to get off the road by itself. Sensible people (obviously not Sydney drivers) would spend 1 minute getting out of their car to move the offending roof material off the road...

While not hindered by roof sheeting, the eastbound lanes where mostly populated by a race of people who believe that one must halve ones speed when travelling in the rain. WHY ARE PEOPLE SCARED OF THE RAIN?! Okay, knock a few km/h off, increase the distance between you & the car ahead, etc, but why the goddamn fargen 20km/h? For 15km? Jeez...

Needless to say I got soused immediately after getting home.

Hope whoever lost their roof didn't lose it off their house.

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I got my new bimmer hailed on :cry:

Luckily they're steel panels and the hailstones were only about 1cm big... They sounded so damaging when hitting the car though!

I think if I parked my GTR outside the aluminium panels could have been dented... PHEW!

What time did the hail hit? My car was parked at home in the garage till about 7pm then outside at the lady's house. Just seeing if I should go & have a look for hail damage...

Have seen hail hit my car hard enough to set off the alarm repeatedly for about 3mins & there was no damage so hopefully all is good.

no hail down in the shire, but i was out most of the night with the SES chopping down trees that had been hit with lightning ...

so much fun waving around a 3m pole chainsaw, harnessed into a tree 8m off the ground, and lots of lightning storms around ....

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