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<\/p>\nAlong her street, fences were flattened and a neighbour\u2019s trampoline was blown into another yard. Taylor said the roof of her home lost several metres\u2019 worth of tiles.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t want to be outside with ceramic tiles flying around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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A tarp covering Dianne Taylor\u2019s roof in Wyndham Vale to prevent water leaking through.Credit: Dianne Taylor<\/p>\n
Rain began leaking into a bedroom after an airborne tile punctured the ceiling, and Taylor said her family had put a tarp over the roof until insurance assessors could complete repairs.<\/p>\n
Melbourne recorded 15 millimetres of rain in 15 minutes between 4.20pm and 4.35pm, making it the wettest day for 18 months. The daily total was 35 millimetres.<\/p>\n
Flash flooding and lightning caused mass power outages and blocked roads. Water lapped at the doors of some businesses in Newport in Melbourne\u2019s inner west.<\/p>\n
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Across Victoria, the State Emergency Service received 650 calls for help. A third of those were from the Wyndham Vale, Werribee and Hoppers Crossing areas.<\/p>\n
Videos posted online captured what appeared to be a funnel cloud descending from the storm base \u2013 a classic indicator of a tornado, Crock said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTornadoes in Melbourne are really quite uncommon,\u201d he said. \u201cThe event that we saw [on Sunday] is probably as close as we can get to confirming fully a tornado over Melbourne because they are quite rare.\u201d<\/p>\n
While small tornadoes occasionally occur across eastern Australia, Crock said they were rarely seen in such a populated area.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have it go over suburbs of Melbourne, that\u2019s a pretty rare occurrence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Preliminary analysis suggests the storm\u2019s winds reached 90 to 120 kilometres per hour, consistent with a low-intensity tornado.<\/p>\n
In Hoppers Crossing, resident Francoise Poroit said she was driving to her son\u2019s home when she stopped to photograph the damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really frightened; it was like I was in a movie,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d never seen something like this before. So much destruction, and so much damage.\u201d<\/p>\n
As residents and emergency crews continue to clean up, meteorologists are keeping a close eye on the skies. While the week ahead is expected to be calmer, Crock warned that another outbreak of thunderstorms could develop by Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of uncertainty in the forecast at this point,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we are coming into the peak of storm season, so everyone is well advised to stay alert and keep on top of the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along her street, fences were flattened and a neighbour\u2019s trampoline was blown into another yard. Taylor said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-243799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}