In part two of the video, Hail starts falling in the 3 - 4cm range before the big tennis balls of 7 to 8cm start firing down sporadically. Old Northern Road went from a stream of cars to a ghost road in 15 seconds. Any vantage point that had shade had cars parked under it.

I managed to avoid having my windscreen smashed however some of the cars nearby weren't so lucky with rear windows missing on a number of cars.

Short 5 minute time lapse of a rotating updraft near Wyong this afternoon. Video was taken around 330pm to 335pm from just south of Wollombi looking south east.

Some more footage of the Collector/Tarago hailstorm. We unknowlingly punched into the core of the storm and experienced a pretty intense hailstorm. The maniacal laughing was a happy extra.

For those using feedreaders, click on the title to see the video :)

After heading down towards Spring Valley, the core finally catches up and unleashes a barrage of hail on us. At one point visibility was down to a few metres in what felt like driving through a blizzard. Stones ranged from 2 to 3cm