The wind so strong she had to hold the door shut. A … An apartment block also looks to have been seriously damaged. "For like 10 minutes it just rained and the thunder and lightning and wind it was just horrendous.”Rockingham State Emergency Service attended 22 calls for assistance since 10am. Date 06 May 2020. "People were screaming and a lot of people just couldn't believe what was happening because it was so quick, it was just hold the kids heads and get 'em out of the way”, resident Claire Gay said.Celia and Pat Morris, who rent an apartment on the foreshore, were also out having breakfast when the storm hit.“We were just down the road and you could hear the rain coming,” Mrs Morris said.“All of a sudden there was a bang and everyone started screaming as one of the side panels outside blew away.“When it calmed down and we walked outside, we could see trees right along the foreshore that had been brought down by the wind.“As we were walking back towards the apartment Pat said, ‘look at that and there’ and it was a twisted piece of roof at an intersection.“As we came around the corner and saw our apartment he said, ‘look it is our roof’.”Mrs Morris, who is visiting from England, said they would stay with their daughter until returning home next month.She said the storm had been one of the strongest she had seen, with the rain coming in sideways and winds whipping in like a thunderbolt.Weather Bureau duty forecaster James Crow said it was unusual for a thunderstorm to form over the ocean.“Normal thunderstorms are driven by surface heating, and this was driven by dynamics in the upper atmosphere,” he said. The call relates to the number of storm related claims from 2017 for 10 Perth suburbs. The powerful storm packing wind gusts up to 130km/h tore through Rockingham, damaging roofs, downing large trees and causing flash flooding.
"Happened in a snap, the wind was louder than the actual awning ripping off,” he said. The playground at the Rockingham foreshore looks like a bomb hit, with a number of objects blown away. If you’d like to view this content, please adjust yourTo find out more about how we use cookies, please see ourJurian Stuyfbergen's awning was ripped from its footings and thrown over his roof into his neighbour's driveway, part of it smashing into his car. Detours are in place and the City encourages the community to avoid the area. Last night’s storm has caused damage to the temporary seawall at Mersey Point in Shoalwater. The City is continuing to take advice from the WA Department of Health, State Government and Australian Government regarding the safety, health and wellbeing of our community, customers and staff. Trees and power poles are also damaged, with a number of photos showing the damage. It was 10 minutes of fury that'll take days to clean up.A fallen tree rests of the roof of a house in Walker Avenue, Rockingham, after a tornado hit the town.Rourke Walsh | Bethany Hiatt | Rob Scott | Elisia SeeberTrees branches down on the Rockingham foreshore after the storm hit the town.A roof was ripped off a Rockingham apartment block. The Bureau of Meteorology had forecast a wet and potentially stormy Sunday for the last weekend of summer but things got truly hairy in … Roofs collapsed, falling trees destroyed cars, and at least 24,000 people remained without power late in the day as the state braced for more rain and high winds. FOX8 viewers in Guilford and Rockingham counties sent photos showing trees down. Winds of up to 130km/h battered coastal areas south of Perth today, with Rockingham copping the brunt of a storm - bringing down trees and lifting off roofs. Trees were crashing, lamp posts falling down, roofs being blown off, roads flooded within seconds.“It only lasted for five minutes and then it was, literally back to a normal summer’s day again.”If you’d like to view this content, please adjust yourTo find out more about how we use cookies, please see ourA three-storey apartment block on Harrison Street had its roof ripped off and debris was thrown hundreds of metres onto an intersection. “It started off as a normal summer’s day and changed within seconds to what felt like something out of a movie,” said Rockingham resident Kathleen Robinson. A section of footpath in the area has experienced significant damage in the storm front that has impacted Perth over the past 24 hours. A SUMMER thunderstorm that lashed Perth’s south on Sunday has been described by a resident as being “like something out of a movie”.The powerful storm packing wind gusts up to 130km/h tore through Rockingham, damaging roofs, downing large trees and causing flash flooding.“It started off as a normal summer’s day and changed within seconds to what felt like something out of a movie,” said Rockingham resident Kathleen Robinson.The wild weather hit about 10am, with the worst damage suffered along the Rockingham foreshore where trees at a park were uprooted and businesses were forced to close because of roof damage.Ms Robinson was at Spill the Beans Café at Palm Beach Jetty when the severe weather struck.“People were out walking their dogs, swimming at the beach and it changed in seconds to there being basically a torrential downpour with lashing winds,” she explained.“People were screaming and yelling to come inside. The once-in-a-decade storm was a result of remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Mangga combining with a cold front and trough, with the southern part of the state bearing the brunt on Monday.
"It was just a massive crack and then just felt everything like crack on the inside,” he said. “To get a wind gust that strong is also unusual.”“That isn’t a huge amount, but it obviously fell quite quickly, which caused some flash flooding,” he said.