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quote:Uitzonderlijk grote tornado raast door Nieuw-Zeeland
Nieuw-Zeeland is zondag getroffen door een tornado van zeker vijftig meter breed. Het komt niet vaak voor dat het eiland wordt getroffen door een tornado met deze omvang. Vooralsnog zijn er geen gewonden gemeld.
quote:Massive, dark twister spins through New Zealand countryside
A scary twister tore through Canterbury this afternoon, with a couple capturing the “once-in-a-lifetime experience”.
A couple captured a crazy tornado on video as they drove through country New Zealand.
The massive twister rolled through Canterbury this afternoon.
Footage was taken by local resident Alesha Plew as she and her husband Richard were driving along State Highway 1, north of Ashburton.
The twister was captured by local resident Alesha Plew as she drove north of Ashburton.
“My husband looked up and just said … what is that? It was just a massive tornado, a big brown twister.”
The couple came within metres of the tornado as debris flew about the road, but their car wasn’t damaged.
Mrs Plew said they’d driven through a severe hailstorm in Ashburton, before the skies cleared and then the twister appeared in a paddock beside them.
“We kind of kept driving straight past it — it was a couple of fields away from us at the time,” she said.
“It ended up coming about 10m from the car, and there was debris and dirt flying around.”
While other motorists stopped to witness the spectacle, she and her husband kept driving.
“While it looked dangerous, it didn’t feel that way — it didn’t feel like it was sucking us in, anyway.”
For Mr Plew, who hadn’t seen a tornado before, the event was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
“It was quite amazing … just to be looking up at it from so close … it was incredible.”
This afternoon, hailstones the size of marbles and whirling winds pelted properties in Mid and South Canterbury and a thunderstorm lashed the region.
MetService meteorologist Tui McInnes said “substantial” hail between 20 and 30mm started to pour down over Ashburton about 3pm Sunday.
MetService earlier issued a severe thunderstorm warning and said the storms were expected to move northwards through Mid Canterbury during the afternoon and evening.
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