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5pm NZT – Tornado threat has now passed for this event.
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Claire on 7/11/2011 11:51pm
A very active day. I saw several tornadoes on chaser streams earlier. One of the chasers had an accident while I was watching, not due to the tornado but due to their steering locking up. It did look like they’d been blown off the road for a second, though. Scary stuff.
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