Strong Thunderstorm Hits Nagpur and surrounding areas.

Heavy rains grips Nagpur city as a Thunderstorm intensified from NW .As seen from this satellite imagery of 10AM (cloud top temp image. THE BOTTOM IMAGE) in the morning,convective clouds started building up due to CAPE and warm air rising caused by heating of the earth surface!

The Cumulonimbus clouds started growing and by 1500hrs produced lightning and rains in North-Central Maharashtra( AS SEEN FROM IMAGE ON THE TOP AFTER FEW HOURS)

In Nagpur, from 1430hrs, a cool outflow had started with occasional thunder from NW but by 1500hrs, clouds marched in the city and increased the wind speed and adding to wind gusts

As per a Meteorology report of 1600hrs(LT) in Nagpur, winds had reached 28km/hr an

d gusting to 46km/hr !!!!!!

Rains then followed and are continuing till now(time of this post)

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WUNDERGROUND.COM REPORT FROM NAGPUR AIRPORT FOR STATION 42866

THE STRONG WIND GUSTS ALSO CAUSED A NICE ANTICLOCKWISE ROTATION OF CLOUDS AT 2000FT! LOOKING LIKE A DEVELOPING TORNADO BUT OFCOURSE ITS JUST A FUNNEL SHAPE BUT NOT A REAL ONE

CHECK THIS LINK TO FIND HOW IT WAS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5JapddDf5Y

The cloud top temperature at Nagpur was equal to the CTT of Tropical Storm GIRI

The heavy rains have dropped temperatures in Nagpur by atleast 3-4C.

For more updates on Nagpur weather (CHECK NAGPUR WEATHER UPDATE PAGE OF METD WEATHER)