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Brett Dutschke, 09 Nov 2011, 4:21 AM UTC

Vigorous thunderstorms leaving trail of damage across SA

Vigorous thunderstorms leaving trail of damage across SA
The trail of damage is increasing across South Australia as severe thunderstorms redevelop over a large area for the second day running. In the past day or so storms have caused pockets of damage, but are about to leave a more widespread trail. Monday and Tuesday night's storms produced wind gusts of 120km/h in Maree, 109km/h in Roxby Downs, their strongest in more than two years. The storms in the far north last night travelled in a line through the Flinders, Riverland and Murraylands, where lightning, strong winds and flash flooding made quite a mess. Thousands of homes were left without power and a few were even unroofed. Peterborough in the Mid North gained 39mm of rain in about an hour. Today's widespread storms look to have just as much vigor, with a chance of striking some of the same towns again. Mt Gambier gained 12mm at lunchtime. Damaging wind gusts in excess of 100km/h are likely, strong enough to bring down trees and powerlines and to unroof buildings. Flash flooding and large large hail are also a chance. Today's main storm area is north and east of Adelaide but it will move well east of Adelaide this evening as a cooler, drier westerly change moves through.
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