Tornado hits New Zealand's biggest city

[Bosonic]

Source: Telegraph

At least two people have been killed and many others injured when a tornado ripped through Auckland, New Zealand's largest city.

Many of the injuries occurred when the roof of a large shopping mall collapsed in the suburb of Albany.

Witnesses told of seeing victims stunned and bleeding as buildings were destroyed, cars thrown up into the air, and trees uprooted.

The tornado, packing winds of 125 miles per hour, wreaked a trail of destruction across the North Shore, a few miles from the centre of the city of more than a million people.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/8489144/Tornado-hits-New-Zealands-biggest-city.html

[rurallib]

1. It is damn near winter down there. WTF?

[kentauros]

2. Really, WTF?

I never knew they got extreme weather like that. I'll have to ask my GF about that. Thankfully, she doesn't live around Auckland.

[jpak]

3. WTF +3

That ain't Aukland weather

:wow:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. New Zealand experiences, on average, about 20 damaging tornado events each year.

New Zealand experiences, on average, about 20 damaging tornado events each year. The tornadoes are typically very narrow and have short tracks. Most are in the F0 to F2 range.
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/storm/tornadoes-aunzea.htm

[kentauros]

5. Okay, thanks.

Still, I'd call this one "extreme" considering the time of year there.

[wickerwoman]

6. I totally missed it too!

I could have seen where it ended if I had been looking in the right direction at the right time yesterday. Guess it's time to get my hearing checked.

It sounds like it tore up a shopping mall and a few people got hurt. :-(

There was another tornado is Albany in 1991 so it's not unprecedented.