"Gary L" wrote in message...
Thunder and hail here in Branksome Poole about 15:20.
Very slow moving thundery showers.
Heavy rain with some large hail.
A big group of staff gathered to watch a very menicing dark cloud
with rotation that could be seen very clearly.
One member of staff got a lump on his head from a very large piece
of hail approx 12mm diametre.
Heardly a breath of wind. Clouds seem to be forming in situ.


.... not surprised at that report; the event we had up here (further
inland) was always 'on the edge' of something that seemed to be
concentrated down your way, with another cell to our east. Was
watching the cloud filaments here rather carefully about the same time
(trying to get the grass cut in between bursts of rain), but nothing
seen. However the situation IMV was such that a 'funnel' or similar
might be seen.

Martin.

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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Martin Rowley wrote:

... not surprised at that report; the event we had up here (further
inland) was always 'on the edge' of something that seemed to be
concentrated down your way, with another cell to our east. Was
watching the cloud filaments here rather carefully about the same time
(trying to get the grass cut in between bursts of rain), but nothing
seen. However the situation IMV was such that a 'funnel' or similar
might be seen.

Must have been raining hard in Bournemouth - several roads are/have been
closed by flooding, including the Wessex Way (main A338), Alder Road, St
Stephen's Way, etc. Ground was dry as far as Ringwood (commute from
Southampton back to Bournemouth).

Jonathan

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
Martin Rowley wrote:

... not surprised at that report; the event we had up here (further
inland) was always 'on the edge' of something that seemed to be
concentrated down your way, with another cell to our east. Was watching
the cloud filaments here rather carefully about the same time (trying to
get the grass cut in between bursts of rain), but nothing seen. However
the situation IMV was such that a 'funnel' or similar might be seen.

Must have been raining hard in Bournemouth - several roads are/have been
closed by flooding, including the Wessex Way (main A338), Alder Road, St
Stephen's Way, etc. Ground was dry as far as Ringwood (commute from
Southampton back to Bournemouth).

Jonathan

Around 31mm fell here between 1430 and 1645bst.

12mm fell in 10 minutes early on, hard to tell the timings after that as the
rainguage got blocked (again!).
Coming home from Bournemouth Airport arin d 1540 or so and the Wessex Way
was an inch deep most of the way between Cooper Dean and Springbourne where
I exit.

Jim, Bournemouth

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:47:20 +0100, Jonathan Stott
wrote:

Must have been raining hard in Bournemouth - several roads are/have been
closed by flooding, including the Wessex Way (main A338), Alder Road, St
Stephen's Way, etc. Ground was dry as far as Ringwood (commute from
Southampton back to Bournemouth).

21mm near/at Amesbury I believe

R

"Jim Smith" wrote...

Around 31mm fell here between 1430 and 1645bst.

12mm fell in 10 minutes early on, hard to tell the timings after
that as the rainguage got blocked (again!).
Coming home from Bournemouth Airport arin d 1540 or so and the
Wessex Way was an inch deep most of the way between Cooper Dean and
Springbourne where I exit.

Jim, Bournemouth

.... quite a gradient of rainfall then over ~10 km; 31 mm with you,
Hurn reported 7 mm on the 18Z SYNOP, and we had just 3.6 mm.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

Jim Smith wrote:

Around 31mm fell here between 1430 and 1645bst.

12mm fell in 10 minutes early on, hard to tell the timings after that as
the rainguage got blocked (again!).
Coming home from Bournemouth Airport arin d 1540 or so and the Wessex
Way was an inch deep most of the way between Cooper Dean and
Springbourne where I exit.

Just fished out my webcam images from the time. Looking north from East
Cliff.

http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/w...09/12/1431.jpg
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/w...09/12/1446.jpg
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/w...09/12/1501.jpg
http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/w...09/12/1516.jpg

etc.

Jonathan
Bournemouth

"Robin Nicholson" wrote in
message ...
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:47:20 +0100, Jonathan Stott
wrote:

Must have been raining hard in Bournemouth - several roads are/have been
closed by flooding, including the Wessex Way (main A338), Alder Road, St
Stephen's Way, etc. Ground was dry as far as Ringwood (commute from
Southampton back to Bournemouth).

21mm near/at Amesbury I believe

R

42mm at Larkhill (03743) but only 10.8mm by my AWS in Shrewton. A lot of
lightning between 1700 and 1830 BST but heaviest rain was to the east of
Shrewton towards Larkhill/Amesbury. Boscombe Down reported 25mm upto 1800Z.

John
http://www.shrewtonweather.co.uk/

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 at 23:25:57, John
wrote in uk.sci.weather :


42mm at Larkhill (03743) but only 10.8mm by my AWS in Shrewton. A lot of
lightning between 1700 and 1830 BST but heaviest rain was to the east of
Shrewton towards Larkhill/Amesbury. Boscombe Down reported 25mm upto 1800Z.

No thunderstorm here, but we did get nearly an hour of heavy rain around
7pm.
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Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

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