{"id":386524,"date":"2026-04-18T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386524\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:59:08","slug":"widespread-damage-after-tornado-hits-tauranga-flooding-fears-for-whanganui-nz-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386524\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread damage after tornado hits Tauranga, flooding fears for Whanganui &#8211; NZ Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi4gFBVV95cUxOaElTcS1SYjY4Q1dnSWxUaXhxeTdOTmZESDAxR3ZBS0lVd0hDV3hNMjZMSXliZWVZWEFpbFloVnhZbTE0UkpIelpkNDN3WFdLREwwaWN3eGptOEs2MHQ4YjVSaHN5WWlBeHNVd2IzQkF4Wi1vRkNEckFLRm1aUnVtV29sSy1VRUVUMWtoanZDN205VXR6S2lFYnVaSy1sWVZ1MFExU2ZvTlNvTGRmSjlKMnlOaURsVVVWN0xLOUNLMEdONU1QN0JwbHBFUTJqNWZaWW1odFp5ZDh3bUpibEtKbXVn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Widespread damage after tornado hits Tauranga, flooding fears for Whanganui<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxNSWZZanlxVE92bVl2SlNwLTk5aVFiT0FoQmk0ZmYzanZ5blhzcFZ1aGl4dDlmTTJOZ2RweHBXNnpsbk5GamVaRUg4SktXbE5WS2tYcU93dWtKRFQ3bXc5aV9aUFpmeERCWl9VanBYdTRqRHZzbXY0TnM2YjhNVXRYOXlWRVItWV9QWlNNa0EtRi1QUHg2b1V3NUl3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heavy rain, reports of flooding in lower North Island<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiUkFVX3lxTE1sMjRpT29LWHBobjVsdlA5T0RPQWUycUV1bHMxc2owRGx6c1l3ZWhrODMwX3hnNGxqRXdWZEV2OGNkc0ZVa1pRcDFuMXh6bDc4cEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SH58 closed overnight because of damage from rain and flooding<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Scoop Wellington<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxQU0hlcGplSWpBaHFrRWJxSkprTTZWOUw1MVNOd1VRSFRvY1gtNzJleEhpUUU1Y2pEWXBfNEZJWUFJN1dGUF9FTjVlMjVLR1Y5YjVGRExuMGZraFRyOHBJRDR2alByZUpPaUN1VEpOZkpaTU9qNVNxcjFGUmNCQjFFN2Y5QXllTXJJR1VWNE9yaXpMR1VhWGRLUUFrVVpLdnZT?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">States of local emergency in Whanganui, \u014chura as heavy rain hits<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;1News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxPSjF0UnFaVHFwTFA0RzhDNzlwMVVqdEhSaVpNcERjZnhQRmtZSkRpTGY2ZF82X3hiT3dvYXNGY0htWUdjUHZvUTBPR1RUcHVzS2tHQUFUUGxQeFJQaDNpOFhJZWhOLWxfYXZ6RjlKX2w1d0pqZktKcFNhRlNqZVdKTm1SbXNNazg3bURvcTN5Vy11bmw2WHF2OE1vTlVlWWlWQm0tU2lweE9wdTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wellington weather clean-up: \u2018We had no idea it was going to be this intense\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Widespread damage after tornado hits Tauranga, flooding fears for Whanganui&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ HeraldHeavy rain, reports of flooding in lower North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,12817,39881,15974,42,78,4960,440,43,1118,51972,9939,40,38,41,39,7245,4998,1883],"class_list":["post-386524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-and","tag-declared","tag-districts","tag-emergency","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-live","tag-local","tag-news","tag-of","tag-ruapehu","tag-states","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-updates","tag-weather","tag-whanganui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}