“This morning I was in the kitchen with my son around 9 a.m., and it was normal like storm weather, like just loud wind and rain like all night, but for about 30 seconds it was just as calm.
“It felt like a cyclone or a tornado, the house trembled a bit.
“My wife ran down from here and went 'it's really bad', but then listened and calmed me down, we looked around in the house at this point and yes, roof tiles are gone.
“Then we started to have leaks in the house, probably three big leaks.”
Li said they had no warning before the massive weather event.
“It just came and [was] gone within 30 seconds.
He said the fire brigade was present and advised him that ownership of what was insured was not to give any structural damage to property.
“I think we hit the worst of the lot in relation to the roof, but I think other properties got pretty bad too.”
Jeremy Corner in West Harbor said there seemed to be no single house in the Luckens RD area that had escaped the violent “Tornado”.
He said he was sick when the leaves started to “only float in the air”.
“The trees blow in all directions … we heard massive pony, we were really amazed.”
He said every tiled roof that he could see from his window was missing Tililia and 60% of the fences were completely reversed.
“There is someone with all the windows that are only one block away.”
He said a sign of the local kindergarten 100m in the street had landed in his back yard.
Corner said Herald.
“I'm worried about everyone who will come home and see from work [the holes in the roofs] Because it is heavy rain, only leaks come through their houses. “
The owner of a house in Francesca Place in West Harbor received a call from a neighbor at 10 a.m. and said that his rental property was hit by the registered tornado.
“They rang and only said: 'Your window is blown out and a tornado has been through, so you might want to come and check it.
The man said the gusts push the large front window on the second floor of the property.
“It's flown in, so it's like glass inside … I wasn't here to see it, but it was pretty strong.”
MetService's meteorologist, Katie Hillyer, said at that time there was no evidence of an actual Tornado, but they couldn't be 100% safe.
“It is more likely that the gusts are about 90 km/h to 100 km/h.”
With the amount of precipitation, which covered the radar, she said it was difficult to determine whether it was a tornado or not, but either way the damage could still be “very difficult”.
Previously, the commander of Fire and Emergency, Dave Hatton, said a little Tornado who was blown through Blockhouse Bay this morning and let rubble fly.
A man said that he was lucky to be alive “after a road light crashed only meters in front of his car, while a building in Avondale collapsed the street.
Auckland stayed under a heavy thunderstorm until 1 p.m.
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