Sudden and severe thunderstorms swept across Adelaide on Friday afternoon, with huge hailstones hitting streets across the city centre.
The system swept south-east on a day when there was only a 40% chance of rain predicted. Adelaide experienced 31C heat before the storm broke, bringing wind gusts of more than 90km/h.
Hail in Adelaide. Watch out Regional SA pic.twitter.com/niF3Vbjttm
— Peter Burgess (@LQS_SA) November 11, 2016
The Bureau of Meteorology warned wind gusts of more than 125 km/h were possible in the North East Pastoral, Mid North and Riverland areas.
Localised flash flooding was reported as some areas received up to 10mm of rain in as many minutes. The bureau said areas that may be particularly affected include Adelaide, Whyalla, Renmark, Mount Gambier, Leigh Creek and Moomba.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Mark Anolak told the ABC: “Larger hail has fallen, particularly through the north-eastern areas of the Adelaide metropolitan area.”
“I don’t now how often we see hailstones this big in Adelaide,” he said.
First Creek flooding out into the eastern Parklands #Adelaide #howztheweather pic.twitter.com/kzlRNxRwUN
— Allan Kane (@allantkane) November 11, 2016
When it's 32 degrees and then ten minutes later it's hailing golf balls #justadelaidethings #adelaide pic.twitter.com/YZBn5cKZDA
— Lisa• (@yaylisa) November 11, 2016
WEATHER: Freak late afternoon hail storm batters #Adelaide after the city swelters through a 35C day https://t.co/rpWm2EIciJ #newsADL pic.twitter.com/N7exs1d1Bo
— The Advertiser (@theTiser) November 11, 2016
Nasty #storm sweeping through #Adelaide big hail, hopefully not much damage pic.twitter.com/YSchNHTcke
— Drew Radford (@DrewRadford) November 11, 2016
