Twister hits WA’s Big Southern set up as wet climate forecast for the week

The 2d a tornado touched down in Western Australia has been captured on camera after severe thunderstorms hit the relate’s south.

Footage showed the climate phenomenon crossing paddocks come Lake Grace, about 320 kilometres south-east of Perth over the weekend.

The imaginative and prescient modified into captured in Beenong by Kristian Chatfield on Sunday as climate bureaus issued a severe climate warning for worthy of southern WA.

Mr Chatfield acknowledged it modified into an fabulous peep.

“I’ve viewed the shatter earlier than nonetheless by no manner the enlighten component,” he acknowledged.

“It blew branches no longer lower than 50 metres into the paddocks from the set up the trees have been.”

BOM confirms tornado sighting

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Angeline Prasad acknowledged the set up experienced heaps of thunderstorm exercise over the weekend. 

“There modified into one cell in enlighten that looked very intense, so I’m no longer surprised that a tornado modified into reported,” Ms Prasad acknowledged. 

“These thunderstorm cells are in total known as gigantic cells and the winds related with these tornadoes will likely be barely ferocious.”

The bureau’s web web site acknowledged tornadoes have been extra total in Australia than expected with “dozens of sightings every twelve months”.

“Many extra also can occur in far away areas and due to the this reality are unreported,” it acknowledged. 

“A form of the stronger tornadoes in Australia are related with a form of thunderstorm normally known as a supercell.”

Moist climate is anticipated to continue at some level of the set up this week.