A Mangawhai resident has been hospitalised after severe winds tore open their home and threw them out of the top storey. “They were asleep on the second storey of their house,” said a neighbour to the ...

Explainer: The wind speed of the Mangawhai tornado is similar to one that's occurred before - RNZ has been looking at what we ...

Mangawhai residents are still cleaning up the damage caused by the tornado that ripped through the coastal community north of ...

Nick Beerthound, an unsettled resident and worried neighbour, tells the Herald about his experience through the 'tornado'-like winds in Mangawhai overnight. Video / NZ Herald Thirty-five homes ...

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Around 50 homes and buildings have been damaged – some extensively – by a tornado that ripped through Mangawhai earlier today. Two people are in hospital with serious injuries after the winds ...

The family of a woman badly injured in the Mangawhai tornado say it is a miracle she survived when the second storey of her house was blown apart. Two people were badly injured in the tornado ...

Turner said the speed varied along the path of a tornado, which is why some homes suffered more damage than others. The lack of radar coverage in regional New Zealand made it harder to detect ...