On 16 December 2015 a series of severe thunderstorms crossed Sydney. A category F2 tornado damaged several properties and the desalination plant in Kurnell, with a wind gust of 213 km/h recorded, the strongest wind gust ever recorded in New South Wales.
The Insurance Council of Australia estimated cost of the event to be $220,291,454.
Insurance Council of Australia, Historical disaster statistics, April 2021, website viewed 6 July 2021
The Bureau of Meteorology, 'Sydney in December 2015: Warm, stormy end to the year', 6 January 2016, website viewed 6 July 2021
The Guardian, 'Sydney storms: tornado, hail, wing and flash-flooding wreck havoc across city', 16 December 2015, website viewed 6 July 2021
