16th January 2010 - Severe storm, Tarago, NSW Click any image for much larger size The 16th January 2010 was shaping up to be a great day. For several days the models had been hinting at possible severe storms. It was a day that NSW storm chasers had been waiting all of this long poor season for, and for some such as myself and few lucky others, the day did not let us down.  After flanking around some rubbish we headed for blue sky. By the time we reached the 'blue sky' target a nice storm was rapidly developing near Marulan We headed to a known viewing spot NW of Marulan and watched this storm put out some good lightning. Another storm developed to our NW and with rain we had to go.        At Goulburn we experienced more storms. Unfortunately we appeared to be one side of town, while the storms trained on the other. See video below for more from Goulburn. After a radar update we saw that there was a stronger line of storms to our west. We determined that the strongest part of the line would  be near the small town of Tarago. At Tarago we were rewarded with this lovely shelf. The storm was moving very quick and was obviously severe. There was visible rotation in this storm. A video can be found below   Some video stills of the lightning at Goulburn - complete video further down page Timelapse of storms near Goulburn   Shelf cloud of severe storm near Tarago, NSW   |  Storm Chasing and Weather Events Home Page |  Main Weather Page |  Lightning  |  Video  |