A large front moving across the North Island brought heavy rain and up to 50km/h wind gusts to the Bay yesterday but caused little damage.
The Met Service issued a severe weather warning on Saturday, which remained in force for the Bay of Plenty last night.
While there were no reports of flood damage, the stormed caused power cuts to some parts of Kairua, Papamoa, Papamoa Beach and Te Puke for about two hours.
Tauranga Coastguard reported at least 2.5m waves were recorded at A Beacon and at 2pm Tauranga experienced wind gusts of 50km/h. Several kitesurfers took advantage of the strong winds.
Met Service forecaster Philippa Murdoch said Tauranga had received 25mm of rain in the 24 hours to last night.