The family of a woman badly injured in the Mangawhai tornado say it is a miracle she survived when the second storey of her ...

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

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 ...

Building inspectors have completed 90 rapid assessments of properties damaged by the Mangawhai tornado, stickering 35 of them ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Residents are pulling together to tidy up after the devastation, but power lines have been torn down and cars have been crushed by trees.