More than 20 firefighters were in the area assessing properties, with some partially collapsedIt turns out the storm that caused additional power outages at Chester Hill this morning — amid the ongoing extreme weather event in NSW — was a "mini-tornado", according to the NSW Premier.
Emergency crews were called to the Canterbury-Bankstown suburb at about 8:30am following reports the storm had left a "trail of destruction damaging multiple properties". "[For a] split second, as I was looking outside, the house felt like it was literally moving and all I can see from the window is leaves, and things together," she said.
There’s no such thing as a ‘mini-tornado’, even if the Premier said it. A better term to use if you don’t know what hit them is ‘severe storm’. This covers a range of things, including any tornadoes, down bursts, etc.
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