The Mangawhai community is banding together to pick up the pieces from yesterday morning's tornado. Two people were seriously ...
A severe storm with tornado-like winds hit Mangawhai and surrounding communities in Northland just before 3am. Two people ...
A woman says her partner was seconds away from being killed when the limbs of a tree harpooned the rear of their motorhome ...
Strangers have turned up at the doors of devastated homes to offer a helping hand Mangawhai tornado. Stories of the community ...
A Mangawhai resident has been hospitalised after severe winds tore open their home and threw them out of the top storey.
The storm in Mangawhai was so powerful that power poles were snapped in half and roofs were ripped off, leaving the seaside ...
Residents are pulling together to tidy up after the devastation, but power lines have been torn down and cars have been ...
FENZ Northland manager Wipari Henwood says the damage was some of the worst he had seen from a tornado.
The township of Mangawhai has been described as looking like a war zone, with houses destroyed, roofs torn off, debris scattered across the roads, power poles ripped off the base, and trees snapped ...
The response to the tornado has been a multi-agency approach, involving Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Police, Northpower ...
A localised tornado affecting the Mangawhai Village area has caused damage to a significant number of homes in the early ...
Northpower hoped to fully reinstate power by 5pm but the damage was worse than first thought. Kaipara Mayor Craig Jepson says a transformer still needs replacing. The tornado injured two people; nine ...