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Tornado north of New Plymouth
« on: May 12, 2015, 12:24:43 PM »
Urenui is a small town about 30km distance from New Plymouth. Link to reported tornado here: Tornado rips through Taranaki town | Stuff.co.nz
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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2015, 01:10:24 PM »
Unbelievable - in our own backyard.

The US is certainly being hammered at present. Much destruction and 6 dead so far from an apparent 71 tornados.

Here is a couple more photos I found from the Taranaki Tornado.




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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2015, 04:00:11 PM »
Adding to this- a few kilometres south, by Motunui, closer to the methanol plant, is an area which seems to get more than its fair share of dramatic wind events- often called tornado alley by locals.
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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2015, 05:55:47 PM »
And a couple lost a shed or garage, not sure which, near Inglewood, inland and south of New Plymouth. Couple lose shed in treacherous Taranaki weather | Stuff.co.nz
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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2015, 08:28:42 PM »
That must been so terrifying specially 1am in the morning glad everyone safe as you can build a building but you cant have a life if you died



P.S Some of the news papers are suggesting a mini Tornado,
I believe that a tornado is a tornado when it touches the ground,
What do you think?
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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2015, 08:54:41 PM »
Quite often the media here rush to call every wind damage event a tornado. We do have them, near where I live, but they are very narrow in their  paths, compared to the ones in the USA.
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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2015, 09:28:31 PM »
Don't think a tornado classification (for Urenui) is confirmed officially as of yet.
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Re: Tornado north of New Plymouth
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2015, 11:50:44 PM »

Yes, will be interesting to see what is concluded. The only update from Met Service I have found says:

 MetService severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum said it was likely a tornado had occurred as there had been active thunderstorms in the area.

But there was a possibility the damage could have instead been caused by "straight-line winds", which were also associated with thunderstorms.
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