Tornado in Greymouth. March 10 , 2005 - ALBUM -

About this image

DescriptionGreymouth’s March 10 tornado sparked the first ever mobilization of entire urban search and rescue (USAR) task force following national protocols. A full task force can only be authorized for deployment by the fire service national commander and the director of the ministry of civil defence and emergency management.Date of PhotoMarch 10 ,2005.Map^[1]ContributorTony Kokshoorn

Shown in this image

Location (city or town)GreymouthEventTornado in Greymouth

Category Information

Category TagDisaster

From Facebook

Date Created3rd December 2021CommentsLesley Parker Butland
I do remember this

Craig Smith
Remember watching this from the Sandvik building Preston road second floor.
Saw it hit Blaketown, head across to the fisheries shaking the crap out of a couple of fishing boats at the wharf, across to the area of Smith's speed and spares up that way,… See more

Marie Summers
still got heaps of photos of this not long after it hit town

Joy Meyer
I remember watching that on the news

Curtis Parker
Didn't it distroy the video dvd store and scatter them all over town, and tose a a car in the harbor and a lot of damage from it, and looks like you are going to have another rain event on the way so much more rain for the west coast

Kyle Webster
I was on night shift at the hospital the night before so out at Camerons were none the wiser....got up lunchtime-ish and went to go to the shops but couldn't work out why New World was shut (Ah well lets try Super Value), got accused of rubber-necking....

Brent Campbell
I remember sitting in a forklift outside pb davy auto electricial.holding on for dear life when this blew over lol . Saw it coming way too late lucky I had bins of fish in front of me on the forks .Was deff beer o'clock after that .lolYvette Mesman
Remember it vividly. I was in the student association office at TPP the day it happened. Hell of a mess. Afterwards we were involved in directing traffic and helping. Friend's daughter was at the Barbados daycare at time. Luckily all the kids were inside having lunch when it hit. I remember that where I normally parked my car there was a car with a 4x2 through the side wall of the tyre into the front of the car. I still have lots of damage on CD somewhere.

Yvette Mesman
It also took out a fair bit of the Foundary building. Some of the stuff from the Foundary was found miles away.

OCR Text Transcription Edit Edit +-Close