Taranaki Tornadoes- State of Emergency declared
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Taranaki Tornadoes- State of Emergency declared
According to news reports at least half a dozen more tornadoes have occured tonight. Stuff.co.nz is reporting many many houses (40-50 odd homes) are 80% damaged, whatever that means, in Okura by three separate twisters.
One in particular sounded like a real monster funnel- to quote Stuff:
"In Oakura residents watched horrified as several tornadoes - one of them a giant - cut a destructive path through the small coastal Taranaki settlement at dusk tonight. "I've never seen anything like it - a huge black triangle came in off the sea and went straight through Oakura from one end to the other," said Nigel Carter, who was driving into the township west of New Plymouth when they hit.
Another resident, Todd Burkett, says he and others were enjoying an after-work beer at the Butler's Reef Hotel when three tornadoes simultaneously hit the settlement.
"The day got darker and darker, then it began to pour down, and then there was a massive flash over near the waterfront," he said.
"We all looked up and saw three tornadoes - two smaller ones and one really big bastard. They all moved right across Oakura."
Surely this past few days is unprecedented in NZ weather memories.
And surely it now deserves a separate thread!
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One in particular sounded like a real monster funnel- to quote Stuff:
"In Oakura residents watched horrified as several tornadoes - one of them a giant - cut a destructive path through the small coastal Taranaki settlement at dusk tonight. "I've never seen anything like it - a huge black triangle came in off the sea and went straight through Oakura from one end to the other," said Nigel Carter, who was driving into the township west of New Plymouth when they hit.
Another resident, Todd Burkett, says he and others were enjoying an after-work beer at the Butler's Reef Hotel when three tornadoes simultaneously hit the settlement.
"The day got darker and darker, then it began to pour down, and then there was a massive flash over near the waterfront," he said.
"We all looked up and saw three tornadoes - two smaller ones and one really big bastard. They all moved right across Oakura."
Surely this past few days is unprecedented in NZ weather memories.
And surely it now deserves a separate thread!
Talk about blown away
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Again from Stuff....
I'm learning a lot of seriously scary stuff here!
"That big tornado, on August 15, 2004, hit 16km northeast of New Plymouth and demolished all the main power lines feeding the area north and inland from Waitara, cutting off nearly 7000 consumers. It was particularly severe, with debris spread over an area 400m long by 50m wide.
Rated at a similar intensity, New Zealand's worst tornado was in Frankton and a nearby part of Hamilton on August 25, 1948, leaving three people dead and 80 injured.
On March 10, 2005, a waterspout formed over the sea just west of Greymouth and made landfall in Blaketown, then carved through the town centre.
Like the Frankton tornado, it was rated at F2 on the "fujita scale" indicating windspeeds of 150-200kph.
The Greymouth tornado caused almost $10 million in damage and seriously injured three people, but despite the magnitude of the tornado no-one was killed."
Full article here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4117516a7693.html
I'm learning a lot of seriously scary stuff here!
"That big tornado, on August 15, 2004, hit 16km northeast of New Plymouth and demolished all the main power lines feeding the area north and inland from Waitara, cutting off nearly 7000 consumers. It was particularly severe, with debris spread over an area 400m long by 50m wide.
Rated at a similar intensity, New Zealand's worst tornado was in Frankton and a nearby part of Hamilton on August 25, 1948, leaving three people dead and 80 injured.
On March 10, 2005, a waterspout formed over the sea just west of Greymouth and made landfall in Blaketown, then carved through the town centre.
Like the Frankton tornado, it was rated at F2 on the "fujita scale" indicating windspeeds of 150-200kph.
The Greymouth tornado caused almost $10 million in damage and seriously injured three people, but despite the magnitude of the tornado no-one was killed."
Full article here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4117516a7693.html
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A bit of humour in the middle of chaos... at Oakura 12kms north of NP
Man wakes up with the fridge on top of him...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4118459a11.html
Lucky!! Sad about the laptop... was computing at the time... eggs were alright
Man wakes up with the fridge on top of him...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4118459a11.html
Lucky!! Sad about the laptop... was computing at the time... eggs were alright
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Quote of the year from Norm in that story - he's just been shaken around in his caravan by a tornado, and he says "That one really put the wind up me."TokWW wrote:http://www.stuff.co.nz/4118459a11.html
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http://stuff.co.nz/blogs/tommy/2007/07/ ... een-duped/
lol reminds me of what I did a few years back!!
lol reminds me of what I did a few years back!!
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I tell you what , I did have my suspicions on that first image....because later cell phone photos/movies showed it as a waterspout at first, i.e alot of spray, but this was is more just a condensation funnel
next, the sky did not look all that threatening for the direction the photo was taken....
but I did not say anything, because when i ever I do query the authenticity of a photo people jump on me!
next, the sky did not look all that threatening for the direction the photo was taken....
but I did not say anything, because when i ever I do query the authenticity of a photo people jump on me!
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It was so obvious. Only a stormchaser could be clueless enough to have fallen for such a kiddie-level fake.03Stormchaser wrote:http://stuff.co.nz/blogs/tommy/2007/07/ ... een-duped/
lol reminds me of what I did a few years back!!
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I and others have seen many off the Kaikoura coast too. Are some locations more likely to breed them or is it just that those are sites where people can see them?spwill wrote:I was talking to a Air Nelson pilot at the weekend he reckons he see's about a dozen waterspouts a year from his Aircraft along the NI WestCoast.
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Tornado images
I find it surprising that there are not more images from the actual tornado's themselves.
Especially considering that more people have digital cameras and cellphones which can take photo's although of poorer quality.
Razor Greymouth seem to get hit every couple of years, from memory, by quite powerfull waterspouts.
NZstorm I'm of next week to Ruapehu, Whakapapa and look forward to some good snow.
Especially considering that more people have digital cameras and cellphones which can take photo's although of poorer quality.
Razor Greymouth seem to get hit every couple of years, from memory, by quite powerfull waterspouts.
NZstorm I'm of next week to Ruapehu, Whakapapa and look forward to some good snow.
Who put the LED's on the lightning arrestor ?
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03stormchaser well done research there.
Just reading and opening up some of the links.
I had some doubts of that funnel image too.
That was the same image which was shown on the TV news last week.
I would take pride in taking a good photo clip of a tornado and would be more than happy to have my name listed in the news.
If photo's get submitted anonymously it makes it a little suspect IMHO.
I have my camera with me today, see what happens.
Just reading and opening up some of the links.
I had some doubts of that funnel image too.
That was the same image which was shown on the TV news last week.
I would take pride in taking a good photo clip of a tornado and would be more than happy to have my name listed in the news.
If photo's get submitted anonymously it makes it a little suspect IMHO.
I have my camera with me today, see what happens.
Who put the LED's on the lightning arrestor ?