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The Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed a tornado hit an Adelaide suburb last night, damaging several homes and bringing down branches and powerlines.
The State Emergency Service (SES) said at least seven properties were damaged on Diamond Street at Morphett Vale in Adelaide’s south amid strong winds.
A car was also damaged as heavy rain lashed the area.
One resident, Paul, whose house was severely damaged, said he was sitting down to watch a movie when the strong winds seemingly came from nowhere.
“We were just about to pick a movie … then ‘whoosh, whoosh’, three flashes, the loudest bang, then a massive yellow explosion,” he told ABC Radio Adelaide.
“I’ve never seen anything like this … really freaky stuff. Like, where did that come from?”
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) duty forecaster Bonnie Haselgrove said wind gusts of up to 80 kilometres per hour lashed the state yesterday, with Morphett Vale the worst-affected area.
“We’re going to be going back through our radar data today.”
The BOM later confirmed the cause of the damage as a tornado.
The last time Adelaide experienced a tornado was at the end of May this year.
“Tornados aren’t as uncommon as one would think, in the Adelaide area we probably get one or two a year,” duty forecaster Mark Anolak said.
“With these vigorous cold fronts, it’s quite likely there would have been more tornados somewhere across the state yesterday.”
Steven Laidlaw’s home was one the hardest hit, with the storm damaging his roof and fence as tree branches fell into his front garden.
“It was like a huge explosion, a big ‘crack, bang’ — I presume it was the power lines going out that made the noise. It was very frightening,” Mr Laidlaw said.
“I wondered what the hell had happened … and this huge tree has come down.
“It was like an aircraft going over, I thought a comet went over or something like that.
It took crews more than five hours to clean up the damage and debris.
Heavy rainfall has been widely recorded across South Australia, with falls of more than 30 millimetres in the Adelaide Hills in the 24 hours to 9:00am.
A severe weather warning for damaging winds remains in place for parts of the state.
Showers and winds are forecast to ease across Adelaide today, but more showers and chilly daytime temperatures will return over the next few days.
Courtesy of abc.net.au
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