Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Melbourne Area for HEAVY RAINFALL and LARGE HAILSTONES
For people in Inner East, Inner, South East, Northern, Outer East, Western and parts of Port Phillip waters, Western Port, Mornington Peninsula and Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula Local Warning Areas.
Issued at 2:41 pm Friday, 14 February 2020.
Headline:
Damaging winds continuing in parts of Lord Howe Island, expected to ease later this afternoon.
Areas affected:
Warning zone: Lord Howe Island.
Watch zone: None.
Cancelled zones: None.
Details of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Uesi at 2:00 pm AEDT:
Intensity: tropical low, sustained winds near the centre of 95 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 130 kilometres per hour.
Location: within 30 kilometres of 33.2 degrees South, 158.6 degrees East , 190 kilometres south southwest of Lord Howe Island .
Movement: southwest at 16 kilometres per hour .
Ex-tropical cyclone Uesi is continuing to move southwest away from Lord Howe Island. The movement of the system has slowed in the past few hours and gales are thus persisting about the island.
Hazards:
GALES with gusts to 100 km/hr are still occurring over parts of Lord Howe Island. These GALES should ease later this afternoon or early this evening as ex-tropical cyclone Uesi moves further away to the south.
DAMAGING SURF CONDITIONS, with waves possibly exceeding 5 metres in the surf zone, are likely to produce significant beach erosion. These conditions are expected to slowly ease overnight tonight. The sea water level may exceed the highest tide of the year. People living in coastal areas likely to be affected by this flooding should take measures to protect their property as much as possible.
Weather Situation: A warm, humid and unstable airstream.
The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 2:40 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near Croydon, Ringwood, the area northwest of Werribee, KooWeeRup, Bacchus Marsh and St Andrews. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east to southeast. They are forecast to affect Laverton, Scoresby and Werribee by 3:10 pm and Melton, St Kilda and Williamstown by 3:40 pm.
Heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and large hailstones are likely.
Sheoaks has recorded 54mm in about 50 minutes.
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