A rare tornado killed 3 people in New Zealand earlier this week and damaged more than 250 peoples' homes causing $11 million worth of damage. These residents that lost their homes were taken to an air force base in Whenuapai, where council staff and welfare workers assisted them. People described this unusual storm as a "mini tornado", uprooting trees, damaging buildings, and flooded roads causing them to close. Sam Nuthall told reporters "You couldn't see it coming ... there was debris flying everywhere, steel getting thrown around." Others described it as getting very still and very very black and all of a sudden it hit. New Zealand isn't prone to large destructive tornadoes like the Midwest in the U.S. because of its temperate maritime climate. Daniel Corbett a meteorologist said that there was very warm, humid air hanging around that created the conditions for this tornado to occur. Meteorologists also failed to warn people of this fatal tornado saying that it is harder to predict these tornadoes because they are too small to see on radar. But they did give out warnings of strong tornado like wind gusts. This tornado also equalled the deadliest recorded in New Zealand's history.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/new-zealand-tornado-auckland_n_2249360.html
http://news.sky.com/story/1021425/new-zealand-tornado-hundreds-flee-storm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10852906
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