Bureau of Meteorology: 

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Services

Severe Weather Warning Services

These pages provide information on the warnings services for severe weather events affecting land based communities, including:

• Severe thunderstorms
• Flash flooding
• Land gales and destructive gusts
• Damaging surf and storm tides
• Blizzards

• Fire weather events
• Tropical cyclones
• Riverine flooding
• Agricultural and road weather alerts

Severe Weather Warning
These warnings are provided when severe weather is expected that is not directly related to severe thunderstorms, tropical cyclones or bushfires. Examples include land gales, squalls, flash-flooding, dangerous surf or tides.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning
These warnings are provided when thunderstorms are expected to produce dangerous or damaging conditions.

Superseded Warnings 
The Bureau of Meteorology has restructured its severe thunderstorm and general severe weather warning services (effective 16 November 2004).  This has meant that a number of existing warnings have been consolidated into a nationally consistent warnings suite.  

Education Material

Note that other specialised products are provided to key stakeholders - like emergency service organisations. These generally provide detailed technical information to assist these organisations in planning disaster mitigation strategies.

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Last updated November 2004