Tornado in Australia

Tornado strikes homes in New South Wales.

A series of storms produce one supercell which bore a tornado of possibly EF2 rating in which it damaged houses and injured several people.

Images and video can be seen on this link to which I am a moderator. Once on the page look for the first thread topic re storms in NSW

http://www.australiasevereweather.com.au/australian_storm_chasing.html

Wo!

Some serious damage there mate! Looks as though NSW got a right pasting there.

EF2 then?

here's the radar loop of the system. The tornado was in the range of EF2-3. Winds topped 150km/h but likely stronger closer near the funnel. Notice on the radar link how the system moves down the coast and then one cell (the supercell) changes direction and moves back to the NE...Quite impressive cells in this lot...

http://radar.strikeone.net.au/?fuseaction=loops.main&radar=662&numberofImages=10&dateStart=1275477600&dateFinish=1275524400

thats some image on the loop there mate. can clearly see the supercell start to build up then head off NE with rotation. truely amazing and thanks for posting

Thought I replied back to this - maybe not then!

Looked at that loop, yeah some intense build up there and I can see the rotation. Very good that.