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December 6th, 2012 New Zealand, Auckland tornado

Metservice ended up calling this event a "Wind Storm" basically due to the fact no visual tornado was sighted. Personally im not convinced a tornado didnt happen as a rain wrapped tornado may not have been sighted.

This tragic event has been widely reported as a tornado. On Friday 7 December, as I wrote this blog, there certainly was an absence of evidence of a tornado. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Over the last few days it has become increasingly clear — from inspecting aerial views of the damage swath, and from correspondence from people in the area at the time — that this was much more likely to have been a localised wind storm known as a microburst

http://blog.metservice.com/2012/12/hobsonville-tornado-wind-storm-thursday-6-december-2012/
 
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