Striking the suburb of Auckland, at 12:30pm NZDT.
Winds over sixty miles per hour tore through town, both before and after.
They leveled trees, tore up buildings roofs, and threw anything they could around.
The tornado made about one hundred and fifty homes inhabitable, as it killed three people and injured dozens.
All three of the victims were construction workers, who had taken shelter in a truck, when a concrete slab was knocked over, onto the truck, and crushed them.
A second, smaller twister hit near Ngongotaha, causing damage, but no injuries or deaths.
Power is out throughout the Auckland area, and workers spent most of the day attempting to restore it.
High winds continued, and were expected to climb back up to over sixty miles an hour, over night.
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