Casually Getting Cyclonic Winds At Work In Kuranda

Occurred on January 19, 2015 / Kuranda, Queensland, Australia

Info from Licensor: "I was at my workplace (a restaurant in Kuranda). It had been getting increasingly stormy all day, there was lots of thunder and lightning, the rain was starting to get very heavy, and the wind was picking up. The power had just gone out. I stopped to take some footage of the heavy rain (and what must have also been hail at that point) while the wind kept increasing. All of a sudden, in one great big gust of wind and hail, many trees were snapped clean in half and sent flying meters from their trunks. The thick foliage of vines was ripped entirely off of restaurant railings. At our cafe, (upstairs from the restaurant recorded, along the street), tables and chairs were allegedly sent flying. It was very short-lived, though. Not long after the peak was caught on camera, it died down altogether. I'm told that the short burst of cyclonic winds can be defined as a microburst. The effects were very central to just one area. Even people just five minutes down the road didn't get the effects that we did."