The damage caused by a tornado that ripped through parts of Whangārei has notched up more carnage, with a farm shed being torn apart and roofing iron strewn among the tree tops.
On Friday the destructive spinning columns of wind touched down in Ōakura, where trees were skittled, a Whangārei boatyard where boats toppled off cradles and now a farm shed at Mata has been identified as being blown apart by a tornado.
Roof iron was tossed into the upper branches of a shelterbelt of pine trees nearby with sheets also scattered across a paddock. One piece was blown about 100m away.
![Sheets of roofing iron from a farm shed ended up in pine trees at a Mata property. Photo / Michael Cunningham](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/XICPI6H2L5FOBCVK54ERNEHEJM.jpg?auth=6dbe58000f941ae7d75bbec4b868429a7f4fe1727360fea2008dd18aac748eca&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
One of the pines was snapped in half and as the tornado passed through the property some mature totara trees were uprooted and branches snapped off.