Hawke's Bay resident Emma Waerea filmed the tornado from her house, and estimated it was hovering somewhere above Pakipaki in HastingsA funnel cloud appeared over Hastings on Sunday evening, bringing with it a downpour of 6mm of rain in under an hour. The region experienced some thunder and lightning, but it was the tornado-shaped cloud which drew people’s attention. Hawke’s Bay resident Emma Waerea spotted it out her window at about 4:47pm, and it disappeared just after 5pm. She guessed it was meeting the ground somewhere close to Pakipaki in Hastings, and Metservice forecaster Gerard Bellam confirmed that estimate. The funnel cloud (the term for a tornado-shaped cloud which does not touch the ground) formed over south-west part of Hastings, near Raukawa and Pakipaki around 5pm, Bellam said.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2021 09:42 UTC