{"id":386588,"date":"2026-04-19T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:10:08","slug":"flood-warnings-for-whanganui-tornado-damages-tauranga-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386588\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood warnings for Whanganui, tornado damages Tauranga homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/19\/states-of-local-emergency-in-whanganui-ohura-as-heavy-rain-hits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/04\/19\/states-of-local-emergency-in-whanganui-ohura-as-heavy-rain-hits\/\">Two states of local emergency<\/a> have been declared in the Manawat\u016b-Whanganui region, for the Whanganui District and \u014chura ward after rain triggered flooding, slips, evacuations and state highway closures overnight.Flooding was expected around 1pm in low\u2011lying parts of Whanganui, including Anzac Parade, Taup\u014d Quay and P\u016btiki.A tornado damaged several homes and cut power to 75 properties in Tauranga&#8217;s Welcome Bay.Multiple weather warnings and watches have been issued by MetService.Do you have photos or videos of the weather? Email us at news@tvnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Follow 1News&#8217; live updates for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you need to know Two states of local emergency have been declared in the Manawat\u016b-Whanganui region, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-386588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386588","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=386588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}