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Wind, rain and hail lashes Canberra

Hailstones bouncing in a Mitchell car park.

CANBERRA received two to three-centimetres of damaging hail as a severe thunderstorm swept across the ACT on Tuesday afternoon, throwing down hailstones almost the size of ping-pong balls.  

The Bureau of Meteorology, in a severe thunderstorm warning for “damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rainfall” and issued at 5.17pm, describes it as a trough extending from north-west NSW through central parts of the state generating severe thunderstorms in a hot and humid environment ahead of a strengthening upper trough.

It says severe thunderstorms may lead to flash flooding over the next several hours in the Southern Tablelands and the ACT.

Severe thunderstorms would continue throughout the state.

 

The late-afternoon BOM storm warning map.

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