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Australia does receive its share of tornadoes, severe hailstorms and other severe storms. In its history, severe hail storms as well as tornadoes have been reported in all areas of the country. Hailstones up to the size of grape fruits were reported in Sydney on the 14th April 1999 Sydney hailstorm. To give you an idea of the size of hailstones that fell in this storm, check the two pictures on this page. But giant hailstones have been reported in Sydney on other occasions: March 7th and March 18th 1990, January 21st 1991, February 12th 1992, October 28th 1995, February 5th 1996 are examples of some of such events. The hail damage from hailstorms can be devastating including hail dents to cars and roofs of houses. Since storm chasing became popular in Australia, giant hailstones causing significant hail dent damage to vehicles have been intercepted several times. Two cases of windscreen damage have been documented by the Australian Severe Weather team. The hailstorm video footage of this hailstorm in Hungary is some of the most incredible I have ever seen involving the obliteration damage of a roof.

Hailstones of the giant category are almost always spawned by Supercells that consist of strong, rotating updraughts. These storms are efficient in that they maintain themselves for usually over an hour and even up to several hours. However, sometimes when the lower level winds are ideal, supercells can and have produced tornadoes. Tornado events in recent times include Elsmore NSW tornado on November 6th 1989, Booleroo tornado early November 1992, Merimbula tornado 16th April 1995, 3 tornadoes reported on 29th September 1996, November 3rd and November 5th 2000, Nelson Bay tornadoes 18th November 2001, and most recently Niangala Tornado 13th October 2002. This most recent tornado at Niangala destroyed adouble brick house and displaced a man on another property 30 metres from where he was standing. The path of destruction was about 100 metres path as the tornado cut a swathe of destruction in forest.