Thunderstruck: region left shakin’ at the knees (or wet, anyway) Otago Daily TimesSevere thunderstorms watch issued, with hail, flooding and a chance of small tornadoes forecast StuffSevere thunderstorms threaten North Island; hail blasts Dunedin amid red warning NZ HeraldThunder, hail on the way for BOP SunLive1700 lightning strikes over the South Island in ‘intense’ storm The Press