Storm Chase 24th January, 2004

Today was looking quite healthy with LI's of -5.1, not too bad shear and a strong cap. I was at Caloundra this day for a surf and didn't end up leaving until about 4:30pm. I could see a massive storm building up to my south which was infact at Coolangatta, a good 200km away. The anvil was pushing right up into the atmosphere and looked quite impressive travelling back towards Brisbane.

Just as I entered the Northern suburbs of Brisbane, the storm really took off with boiling updrafts and pileus capping. This was pushing through the anvil it had previously and looked quite spectacular.

A STW was now in force for this storm with warnings issued for damaging winds and heavy rainfall over the Gold Coast area. As I neared the Brisbane CBD, I got another view of the storm and it was very impressive with a backshearing and overshooting anvil which was very solid.

Just after 6pm the storm died however the weakening features looked quite interesting.

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