6 January 2011

Tuggeranong Hail Doozy

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Adam has sent in the above pic of the hail which has just lashed Tuggeranong.

Got more pix of it? Send them to images@the-riotact.com

Slideshow below. Thanks to Kazza The Blank One, Dave F, John Lafferty, Anthony Caffrey, Adam, AndyM and Mark for sending them in.

UPDATE: The ESA’s tale of woe is also below the fold.

FURTHER UPDATE: Thanks to Douglas for sending in this video which captures the fury of such large hunks of ice falling from the sky nicely:

    7:00pm Wednesday 5 January 2011– 30 calls for help following hail storm ACT State Emergency Service has received a total of 30 calls for assistance following a hail storm tonight.

    The majority of calls have been water through ceilings on the southern side of Canberra around Tuggeranong.

    ACTSES volunteers and ACT Fire Brigade are responding to the calls for help.

    Residents who require assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.

    7:30pm Wednesday 5 January 2011 – Update following hail storm. ACTSES and ACT Fire Brigade have now received over 60 calls for help following hail storm.

    Conder and Banks mostly affected areas with hail damage and water through ceilings.

    Residents who require assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.

    8:20pm Wednesday 5 January 2011 – Update two following hail storm. ACTSES and ACT Fire Brigade have now received a total of 84 calls for help following hail storm.

    Most calls relate to water inundating residential homes with some broken roof tiles and skylights due to hail.

    Residents who require assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.

    9:40pm Wednesday 5 January 2011 – Update three following hail storm. ACTSES and ACT Fire Brigade have received a total of 103 calls for help following hail storm.

    Volunteer crews from the ACT Rural Fire Service have also assisted in the clean-up.

    Mostly hail and water damage at Conder and Banks, with some trees and branches also down at Ainslie and Florey.

    Residents who require assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.

    10:40pm Wednesday 5 January 2011 – Update four following hail storm. ACT State Emergency Service has now received a total of 111 calls for help following hail storm.

    SES Units, ACT Fire Brigade and ACT Rural Fire Service volunteers are aiming to complete remaining jobs through the night with 28 outstanding.

    Residents who require assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.

    12:20am Thursday 6 January 2011 – Update five following hail storm. ACT State Emergency Service has received a total of 116 calls for help following hail storm.

    SES Units, ACT Fire Brigade and ACT Rural Fire Service volunteers have no jobs outstanding.

    Most Units have stood down with the last crew due to finish at 1:30am

    Residents who require assistance can call the ACTSES on 132-500.

    9:35am Thursday 6 January 2011 – Update six following hail storm. ACT State Emergency Service has resumed clean-up operations after receiving more calls for help this morning following yesterdays hail storm.

    A total of 122 calls for help have been received with ACTSES volunteers currently on site at residences at Conder and Banks with hail damage to roofs.

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By the way, I meant PAINTLESS dent repair. I tried to edit the comment but couldn’t work out how. I’m not that interested in hearing about pantless dent repair…

My car has about 60 or 70 relatively minor dings (indentations, but paint intact) – but the insurance company gave me a 1 Feb date for assessment, let alone repair. I have a fairly high excess, wondering if I might be better off going through a PDR person locally? Has anyone got an idea of cost, or any experience with anyone doing the pantless dent repair? None of the dings look too severe, especially compared to some I’ve seen from the Sydney storms over the years!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11817463@N03/sets/72157625760005700/

I included a photo of my shredded vegetable garden… hail went straight through the leaves! Weird. My garden shed door blew off (I should have replaced the hinges…) and it was dented too. But, I think I can let that slide… 😉

GottaLoveCanberra5:27 pm 06 Jan 11

The Monash BOM site is literally right over my back fence, well what little bit I can still see of it due to the grass haha.

Captain RAAF3:22 pm 06 Jan 11

andym, it’s all going to come down to how much it will cost to repair and what the car is worth. Early model cars worth less than $5K will struggle to be repaired if they have hail damage all over, like mine.

@ MrsD1ngo #28

In the context of Canberra’s suburb names, Isabella Plains stands out as being very unusual. Most place names are one-word names, and most refer to a person or group, not to a geographic feature.

Originally, in the nineteenth century, that part of the Tuggeranong Valley was called Isabella’s Plain…but it was eventually changed to Isabella Plains (hence that name for the suburb which sits on part of the plain). Isabella was the daughter of Thomas Brisbane, the colonial Governor of New South Wales when the area was first explored by white settlers in 1823, and it was thought the original name could have been taken as an unkind reference to her appearance!

@ s-s-a #25 – that’s the old one. It got moved a bit further west as Goodwin Village has now built over about a third of the whole site between Cockcroft and Clive Steele.

@ nanzan #24 – who knows, I’m not local to ACT but isn’t the whole flat area of Monash, Isabella and Richardson part of the old farming ‘plains’ lands?

Our car copped a couple of small dents. I saw one being carted off this morning that looked like it had been used for practise on a golf driving range.
Can these little dents be repaired or is the car a right off?

My poor Volvo got caught out in it. Lots of little dents across the bonnet/roof/boot and some bigger ones. Shredded the veggie garden completely and broke a few tiles on the roof – no glass lost though. It was all over in like 10 mins or less where i was (Theodore).

The car is massively inconvenient. I imagine there will be an enormous waiting list for repairs now.

The hail stones at the beginning of the storm were the biggest I’d ever seen in Canberra.

Oh I see it over there. Thanks!!

Tuggeranong Weather Station is at 15 Cockcroft Avenue, Monash.

Here’s the GoogleMaps link:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=15+cockcroft+avenue+monash&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=15+Cockcroft+Ave,+Monash+ACT+2904&gl=au&ei=Tf0kTfXDCYTmvQOFscWiAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA

So, if it’s in Monash, why does the BOM refer to it as Isabella Plains, I wonder?

The weather station was where the new Goodwin Village is at Monash. Got moved somewhere else on the site between Cockcroft Avenue and Clive Steele.

Apologies – looks like I screwed the link. But its to the north east of that location off Cockcroft Drive.

SSA – The BOM weather station is here off Cockcroft Avenue

0_o Amazing and scary – great pix – thanks guys. It missed us entirely in Kaleen, though we had some good rain.

We are down in Banks and had hail punch lots of holes the pergola roof.
That seems to be the only damage though.
Lots of rain off and on through the evening though.
One of the dogs going a little crazy with it all.

Here’s some more dodgy camera work from me. It had actually eased a little by the time I grabbed the camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpGawSbz7o

TP3000 try taking auto focus off and manually setting it to infinity – all we see is a perfectly focused shot of your windscreen….

The BOM rain guage is at Isabella Plains.

Looks like only the very southern suburbs and Jerra got anything at all as the north Tuggeranong suburbs didn’t get anything much at all. We had the dark clouds but only got 2 claps of thunder and a light shower about 10pm.

Slide show pic #19, note shopping trolley in its natural habitat!!

According to the BOM site, the station in Tuggers is at Isabella Plains. Lat and long listed on the observations page give a location somewhere near the Isabella Drive/Clive Steel roundabout, but I can’t see anything in the vicinity that looks like a Stephenson screen??

Maybe it’s here???

I don’t know where the BOM have their rain guage in Tuggeranong but I would have thought there was more than the 6.8mm to 9pm. I’m just south of Tharwa and there is 34mm in the rain guage here (hail not included).

I went out for a bit of storm chasing, the first video starts where Lanyon Drive crosses the southboun lanes of the Monaro Highway & continues through to the Tompsitt Drive roundabout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpxUxAJ1LJg

The second video is only short & is taken from the truck inspection bay on Lanyon Drive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O_u7EBlr0w

Barely a few spits of rain over here in Fadden.

georgesgenitals8:43 pm 05 Jan 11

Well, despite getting spanked by hail about 2-3 cm across, the car doesn’t have a mark on it!

#7 Thanks!! That is waaaay impressive!

Bloody hell. I’ve just spent the day installing netting in our orchard in Pialligo – we went with bird net, not hail net – I hope that stuff doesn’t make its way over here otherwise I’ll be regretting that decision 🙁

Time lapse video of today’s weather looking south from Conder. (Only valid for 5/01.)
http://www.conder-act.com/weather/videolastday.wmv

Captain RAAF8:17 pm 05 Jan 11

Sadly, one of the Capt’ns cars is no more…

Well, it’s a blessing really, 96 model, transmission on the way out, rego due next month…YAY!

We are in Tuggers and barely a spot of rain; Mum-in-law howevere, just 10 minutes further south, lost her decking roof to massive hailstones.

I’m in Tuggeranong and have only had rain so far. Either it skipped my area or we haven’t been hit yet.

wildturkeycanoe7:06 pm 05 Jan 11

Plz send in more pics people, I’m missing out on all this excitement [yet again], living in the sheltered northern burbs….Wouldn’t even have known it’d rained if I hadn’t checked here.

BOM Radar is showing some black squares over Tuggers.

georgesgenitals7:01 pm 05 Jan 11

Just got hammered in Jerrabomberra, although hail was slightly smaller. When it stops I’m going out to see how dented the car is.

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