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Track of the Dalwallinu and Moora Storms

Storm Track

  Damage Reports
1 Hail up to 4.5 cm size. Severe winds from the south. 51 sheep drowned in flash flooding.
2 Hail up to 11.5 cm size killed foxes and rabbits, injured farm animals. A truck window was smashed, metal roofs dented and trees were stripped of bark. Flash flooding occurred.
3 Hail up to 4.5 cm smashed truck and house windows. Strong westerly winds lifted roofing iron (possible rear flank downdraft wind).
4 Hail up to 5 cm diameter broke 200 concrete roofing tiles and smashed windows and dented a farm vehicle.
5 Hail up to 4.5 cm size. Roofing iron lifted by severe west to south west winds. 18 mm of rain in 20 minutes.
6 Car severely dented and windscreen cracked by large hail (see Fig. 3). 500 hectares of crop totally destroyed.
7 Hail up to 7 cm size. 20 mm of rain fell in 15 minutes.
8 Hail up to 2.5 cm size. Flash flooding.
9 4 cm size hail. Wind damage to trees, paddocks underwater.
10 4 cm size hail. Hail swathe 2km wide. 35 mm of rain fell in 40 minutes.
11 45 mm of rain fell in 20 minutes, house flooded. Hail up to 4.5 cm size stripped garden shrubs.
12 Hail up to 3 cm size. Wall cloud observed (Fig. 5).
13 Hail up to 4 cm size, 30 mm of rain in 15 minutes. Wind from the south unroofed shed.
14 55 mm of rain reported in 20 minutes. Southerly winds snapped trees and unroofed shed.

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