NZ Historic Weather Events Catalogue
October 2001 North Island Storm
(
2001-10-09
)
Thunderstorms and high winds were experienced in Northland, Taranaki, Wellington and The Marlborough Sounds. A tornado damaged properties in Northland and high widns damaged properties in Wellington
North Island
Multi Hazard
at
North Island
Duration: 2 days - From the 9th to the 10th of October.
A large deep depression moved east over the North Island, with a strong southerly flow around the southern side of the depression. Intense cumulonimbus cells in a cold front crossed northern districts.
An estimated. $1 million ($1,200,000 2008 dollars) of damage was done.
Northland
Lightning
at
Northland
Thunderstorms were experienced in Northland on the 9th.
Tornado
at
Cable Bay
A tornado struck Cable Bay at 12:30pm on the 9th, lasting less than a minute.
The tornado appeared to have come in off the ocean from the north-west, and roared across State Highway 10 up the left side of Stratford Drive for 150m, before turning left into Dudley Crescent and disappearing over a hill into rural land.
Six homes were unroofed, garages were wrecked and windows and doors were blown out. 19 houses were damaged, six of them seriously. Furnitiure inside houses was also wrecked. The tornado embedded knife-like shards of glass in one bedroom wall.
The street was left looking like a mini war-zone. Trees, shrubs and tall kanuka were torn from the ground and branches, timber, roofing iron, plumbing, pipes and other debris littered the area.
The tornado was about 100 m wide.
Heavy Rain
Heavy rain had been falling all morning and there was a brief lull in the weather when the tornado hit.
Tornado
at
Mata
A tornado was also reported at Mata on the 10th.
Taranaki
Flooding
at
New Plymouth
Properties were flooded in New Plymouth.
Roads were flooded.
Wellington
High Wind / Gust
at
Wellington
High winds damaged Wellington roofs and felled trees.
Roads were closed.
Powerlines were cut in Wellington.
Maritime / Coastal
at
Cook Strait
There were storm force southerlies in Cook Srait on the 10th.
Ferries were cancelled.
There was a peak wave height of 8 m.
Marlborough
High Wind / Gust
at
The Brothers
Brothers Island recorded a peak wind speed of 131 km/hr on the 10th.
References
- Meteorological Society of New Zealand (Inc.) Newsletter 87, December 2001.
- www.metservice, notable weather events.govt.nz.
- Headline: Tornado fires glass shards.
- www.nzherald.co.nz, Source: Northern Advocate, 10 October 2001.
- Headline: Twister leaves beach settlement in a spin.
- www.nzherald.co.nz, 10 October 2001.
- Headline: Town counts cost of tornado.
- www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 October 2001.
- Headline: Twisters strike in north.
- The Northern Advocate, 10 October 2001.
October 2001 North Island Storm
(
2001-10-09
)
Thunderstorms and high winds were experienced in Northland, Taranaki, Wellington and The Marlborough Sounds. A tornado damaged properties in Northland and high widns damaged properties in Wellington
North Island
Multi Hazard
at
North Island
Duration: 2 days - From the 9th to the 10th of October.
A large deep depression moved east over the North Island, with a strong southerly flow around the southern side of the depression. Intense cumulonimbus cells in a cold front crossed northern districts.
An estimated. $1 million ($1,200,000 2008 dollars) of damage was done.
Northland
Lightning
at
Northland
Thunderstorms were experienced in Northland on the 9th.
Tornado
at
Cable Bay
A tornado struck Cable Bay at 12:30pm on the 9th, lasting less than a minute.
The tornado appeared to have come in off the ocean from the north-west, and roared across State Highway 10 up the left side of Stratford Drive for 150m, before turning left into Dudley Crescent and disappearing over a hill into rural land.
Six homes were unroofed, garages were wrecked and windows and doors were blown out. 19 houses were damaged, six of them seriously. Furnitiure inside houses was also wrecked. The tornado embedded knife-like shards of glass in one bedroom wall.
The street was left looking like a mini war-zone. Trees, shrubs and tall kanuka were torn from the ground and branches, timber, roofing iron, plumbing, pipes and other debris littered the area.
The tornado was about 100 m wide.
Heavy Rain
Heavy rain had been falling all morning and there was a brief lull in the weather when the tornado hit.
Tornado
at
Mata
A tornado was also reported at Mata on the 10th.
Taranaki
Flooding
at
New Plymouth
Properties were flooded in New Plymouth.
Roads were flooded.
Wellington
High Wind / Gust
at
Wellington
High winds damaged Wellington roofs and felled trees.
Roads were closed.
Powerlines were cut in Wellington.
Maritime / Coastal
at
Cook Strait
There were storm force southerlies in Cook Srait on the 10th.
Ferries were cancelled.
There was a peak wave height of 8 m.
Marlborough
High Wind / Gust
at
The Brothers
Brothers Island recorded a peak wind speed of 131 km/hr on the 10th.
References
- Meteorological Society of New Zealand (Inc.) Newsletter 87, December 2001.
- www.metservice, notable weather events.govt.nz.
- Headline: Tornado fires glass shards.
- www.nzherald.co.nz, Source: Northern Advocate, 10 October 2001.
- Headline: Twister leaves beach settlement in a spin.
- www.nzherald.co.nz, 10 October 2001.
- Headline: Town counts cost of tornado.
- www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 October 2001.
- Headline: Twisters strike in north.
- The Northern Advocate, 10 October 2001.