Winds and cyclones
Sabelina Smith made this Official Information request to Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited
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      From: Sabelina Smith
      
    
    Dear Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited,
Could you please provide me with a list of the cyclones (and similar events such as hurricanes, tornado etc) for the past 10 calendar years? Would appreciate if you could include the highest wind gusts of that event showing the city most affected.
Yours faithfully,
Sabelina Smith
        From: Andrea Tandy
        Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited
      
    
    Kia ora Sabelina,
Thanks for your OIA request regarding cyclone activity received on the 23 May 2019.
There is a list of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, which can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Paci...
It tracks back to the 1970s – listing each cyclone and has quite comprehensive details about each one – including peak intensity of the wind. I don’t believe that it specifically lists, which cities were most affected however.
A source of information for historic weather events is CliFlo, be https://cliflo.niwa.co.nz, the national climatological database managed by NIWA which receives data from 600 sites, MetService and NIWA add data in to Cliflo daily, CliFlo data is free to access. 
I hope this satisfies your enquiry.
Best wishes
Andrea
Andrea Tandy
Senior Communications Advisor
MetService
        From: MetService Communications
        Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited
      
    
    Kia ora Sabelina,
Thanks for your OIA request regarding cyclone activity received on the 23
 May 2019. I’ve responded directly on the FYI site but sending this email
 as well to make sure you get it.
There is a list of tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, which can be
 found here [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Paci...
It tracks back to the 1970s – listing each cyclone and has quite
 comprehensive details about each one – including peak intensity of the
 wind. I don’t believe that it specifically lists, which cities were most
 affected however.
A source of information for historic weather events is CliFlo, be
 [2]https://cliflo.niwa.co.nz, the national climatological database managed
 by NIWA which receives data from 600 sites, MetService and NIWA add data
 in to Cliflo daily, CliFlo data is free to access.
I hope this satisfies your inquiry.
Ngā mihi,
 Andrea Tandy
 Senior Communications Advisory
 MetService – Te Ratonga Tirorangi 
  
 30 Salamanca Road, Kelburn, Wellington 6012
 PO Box 722, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
  
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