TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND
for LARGE HAILSTONES and DAMAGING WIND
For people in parts of the
Southeast Coast Forecast District.

Issued at 12:36 PM Tuesday, 25 October 2005.


Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce large hailstones and damaging winds
in the warning area over the next several hours.

Major locations within the warning area include Tamborine, Coomera and Logan
Village.

The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
* Move your car under cover or away from trees.
* Secure loose outdoor items.
* Seek shelter, preferably indoors and never under trees.
* Avoid using the telephone during a thunderstorm.
* Beware of fallen trees and powerlines.
* For emergency assistance contact the SES in your local government area,
listed in the White Pages under either State Emergency Service or your local
council.

The next warning is due to be issued by 1:30 PM.
Current radar
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR503.gif

http://www.infarmation.com.au/common/weather/data/rad502.gif

All the pizza boys (including me) quiver with fear :P

* Avoid using the telephone during a thunderstorm.

someone care to explain why?

its perfectly fine to use the phone during a storm suhaib.

Is it dangerous to use a phone in a thunderstorm?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
By Anahad O'Connor
New York Times News Service

It's been around so long that few people take it seriously. But the claim that chatting on the phone in a thunderstorm can electrocute you is no urban legend. A bolt of lightning that strikes a telephone line can cause an electrical surge to shoot through the wires and enter a handset.

The odds of this are relatively small, and most phone companies have protective measures in place. Still, the risk exists, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recommends that people avoid using telephones and other appliances during electrical storms.

Cases of customers' being jolted while on the phone in a storm are well documented. A few have even died. In 1985, a teenager in New Jersey was killed when lightning caused an electrical surge to flow through his telephone wire, enter his ear and stop his heart. Similar incidents have been reported.

last edited by Lowgoz at 12:24:24 25/Oct/05

* Avoid using the telephone during a thunderstorm.

someone care to explain why?

Because no matter how hard you try, they will never send someone to hide under the covers with you.

sounds like someone couldget sidwahz in this weather

obviously you can't ^^ you need another cam

maybe even some boost to go along with that cam

or a new car, with the boost and cam.

or a car that works, oh i have one of those ek (lol)

LoL!1

Saturday night I had lightning strike fry my dial-up modem. It can and does happen.

It went like this whip-crack/blueflash/funnysmell/god-awful boom/dead modem.

did you demand that god replace your modem for frying it after you told him repeatedly to stop creating lightning??

A red moon rises, an idiot has posted this night.

^ one certainly has

dissing a cainer might not be as cool as you think

you're not a cainer though

I am so a******

@ bandwagon'ers

last edited by Astroboy at 14:13:56 25/Oct/05

rekon

can i play too?

Sorry to spoil the yawning party, but this just issued.


TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
CANCELLATION SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND
Issued at 2:21 PM Tuesday, 25 October 2005.


The Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Southeast Queensland has been CANCELLED.

There are no thunderstorms in the Southeast Coast Distict however the area is
being continually montored and further warnings will be issued if necessary.


You can get back to what you were doing now

Where's the gigantic yawn emoticon when you need it...

damn i wanted a huge motherf***ing storm :(

last edited by ravn0s at 14:37:50 25/Oct/05

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/4884/bom1or.gif


last edited by Lowgoz at 14:47:25 25/Oct/05

same, I love storms, I was out trying to get photos of the lightning last night but my batteries on my camera died :(

I was out trying to get photos of the lightning last night but my batteries on my camera died :(

i was on the top of mt gravatt lookout, it was deserted apart from people up there to look at the storm.. pretty high winds up there also

Thanks Lowgoz :)

Tamborine, Coomera and Logan Village

ie. not Brisbane.

I was just down the road lowgoz at holland park, there's a vacant lot a few houses down from me so I went down there where the view isn't obstructed by powerlines and houses. Hopefully we'll get at least some lightning tonight again, and I'll head back down

it was deserted apart from people up there

Umm ok

Looks like there won't be any storms after all:
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20038.txt

Edit: I am a dumbass and should have refreshed before posting!

last edited by Yarris at 15:36:11 25/Oct/05

generally mt gravatt lookout is full of louts and rev heads. With the storm approaching there were only "normal" people up there

it's a cancellation of the SEVERE thunderstorm warning, there still might be a storm

UPDATED
BRISBANE METROPOLITAN AREA
Showers and thunderstorms possible today. Mostly fine on Wednesday. Moderate NE
to NW winds, fresh at times in the afternoon.

Good work Yarris,
You are only about an hour late.
Did you even read this thread to find out that had been posted??