A Mangawhai resident has been hospitalised after severe winds tore open their home and threw them out of the top storey.

An Auckland woman says her partner was seconds away from being killed when the limbs of a tree harpooned the rear of their motorhome during the tornado that ripped through Mangawhai yesterday. About ...

A severe storm with tornado-like winds hit Mangawhai and surrounding communities in Northland just before 3am. Two people ...

Major clean up is happening today in Mangawhai after a severe tornado rolled through the Northland town. Fire and Emergency ...

A tornado is a narrow, rotating column of air that extends down towards the ground from the base of a thunderstorm. Warning ...

A woman says her partner was seconds away from being killed when the limbs of a tree harpooned the rear of their motorhome ...

By Monday – which is a long weekend for around half of the nation due to Auckland Anniversary Weekend – a strong southerly ...

The storm in Mangawhai was so powerful that power poles were snapped in half and roofs were ripped off, leaving the seaside ...

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 ...

The Northland town was hit by high winds in the early hours of Sunday, damaging 50 houses and knocking down power poles, ...