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According to WABC - 7, it was an EF2 tornado that hit Brooklyn this morning.
EF2 Tornado Hit Brooklyn!
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:25 PM
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:27 PM
inkedmagazine, on Aug 8 2007, 02:25 PM, said:
According to WABC - 7, it was an EF2 tornado that hit Brooklyn this morning.
000 NOUS41 KOKX 082112 PNSOKX CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-091000- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT SPOTTER REPORTS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 512 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2007 ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONFIRM EF2 TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN BAY RIDGE AND VICINITY IN BROOKLYN... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS INVESTIGATING STORM DAMAGE IN THE BAY RIDGE AREA WITH NEW YORK CITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS HAVE CONFIRMED THAT TORNADIC DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED IN THE AREA. THE TORNADO PATH WAS DISCONTINUOUS AND STARTED IN BAY RIDGE SOMETIME JUST AFTER 6:30 AM TODAY ON BAY RIDGE AVENUE BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH AVENUES...AND CONTINUED ON AN EAST-NORTHEAST PATH ACROSS 68TH STREET BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH AVENUES. ELEVEN HOMES IN THIS SECTION HAD MODERATE TO SEVERE ROOF DAMAGE. THE STORM CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST-NORTHEAST INTO LEIF ERICSON PARK SQUARE...WHERE SEVERE DAMAGE TO TREES OCCURRED. AS THE TORNADO LIFTED...IT TORE OFF THE ROOF OF THE NISSAN CAR DEALERSHIP AT THE CORNER OF 66TH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE. THE TORNADO RETURNED TO THE GROUND FARTHER NORTHEAST...WITH SCATTERED TREE DAMAGE ALONG 6TH AVENUE. BASED ON THE ASSESSED DAMAGE...THIS TORNADO IS CLASSIFIED AS AN EF-2 TORNADO WITH ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 111 TO 135 MPH. THE TORNADO RETURNED TO THE GROUND AS ANOTHER POCKET OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OCCURRED ON 58TH STREET BETWEEN FIFTH AND SIXTH AVENUES. THE ROOF WAS RIPPED OFF OF 5 HOMES...AND TREE DAMAGE INDICATES STRONG EF-1 DAMAGE...WITH WINDS OF 86 TO 100 MPH. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAD ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR THIS STORM AT 6:28 AM. $$ JC
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:35 PM
Amazing! When was the last time an F2 or EF2 tornado hit NYC?
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:41 PM
LONG thread here
http://www.easternus...howtopic=139410
and here
http://www.easternus...howtopic=139431
http://www.easternus...howtopic=139410
and here
http://www.easternus...howtopic=139431
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:42 PM
NWS: F2 Tornado Confirmed In Brooklyn
Twister First Ever To Strike Borough
(CBS) NEW YORK What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.
The National Weather Service confirmed that the storm brought with it Brooklyn's first ever tornado, measured to be an E-F2 twister. The tornado brought winds of approvimately 111 miles per hour.
A tornado warning had been issued in Brooklyn from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., and during that time a severe thunderstorm blew through the borough, taking trees, power lines, pieces of rooftops and whatever else it could with it.
Only a few minor injuries, fortunately, were reported.
"About 6:35 this morning it sounded like a freight rain coming down the driveway. The house was shaking and people were screaming," said Linda Mantia, who lives in the Bay Ridge section.
Eric Casanova couldn't believe what he saw out his window. "I looked out my window and the trees looked like dandelions. They were flowing all over the place," he said. "They say you get 15 minutes of fame, here in Bay Ridge it's 15 minutes of history."
Not only is the tornado the first ever in recorded history to touch down in Brooklyn, it's also the first to hit a New York City borough since 1995, when a twister struck Staten Island.
Outside of those two, there have been only two other tornadoes to strike New York City. The first touched down in Queens in 1985 and the second in Staten Island in 1990.
Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest information.
http://wcbstv.com/to..._220172727.html
Twister First Ever To Strike Borough
(CBS) NEW YORK What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.
The National Weather Service confirmed that the storm brought with it Brooklyn's first ever tornado, measured to be an E-F2 twister. The tornado brought winds of approvimately 111 miles per hour.
A tornado warning had been issued in Brooklyn from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., and during that time a severe thunderstorm blew through the borough, taking trees, power lines, pieces of rooftops and whatever else it could with it.
Only a few minor injuries, fortunately, were reported.
"About 6:35 this morning it sounded like a freight rain coming down the driveway. The house was shaking and people were screaming," said Linda Mantia, who lives in the Bay Ridge section.
Eric Casanova couldn't believe what he saw out his window. "I looked out my window and the trees looked like dandelions. They were flowing all over the place," he said. "They say you get 15 minutes of fame, here in Bay Ridge it's 15 minutes of history."
Not only is the tornado the first ever in recorded history to touch down in Brooklyn, it's also the first to hit a New York City borough since 1995, when a twister struck Staten Island.
Outside of those two, there have been only two other tornadoes to strike New York City. The first touched down in Queens in 1985 and the second in Staten Island in 1990.
Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest information.
http://wcbstv.com/to..._220172727.html
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:45 PM
Ian, on Aug 8 2007, 03:42 PM, said:
Not only is the tornado the first ever in recorded history to touch down in Brooklyn, it's also the first to hit a New York City borough since 1995, when a twister struck Staten Island.
Outside of those two, there have been only two other tornadoes to strike New York City. The first touched down in Queens in 1985 and the second in Staten Island in 1990.
Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest information.
http://wcbstv.com/to..._220172727.html
Outside of those two, there have been only two other tornadoes to strike New York City. The first touched down in Queens in 1985 and the second in Staten Island in 1990.
Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest information.
http://wcbstv.com/to..._220172727.html
Amazing.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 04:53 PM
Ian, on Aug 8 2007, 05:42 PM, said:
NWS: F2 Tornado Confirmed In Brooklyn
Twister First Ever To Strike Borough
(CBS) NEW YORK What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.
[snip]
Not only is the tornado the first ever in recorded history to touch down in Brooklyn, it's also the first to hit a New York City borough since 1995, when a twister struck Staten Island.
Outside of those two, there have been only two other tornadoes to strike New York City. The first touched down in Queens in 1985 and the second in Staten Island in 1990.
Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest information.
http://wcbstv.com/to..._220172727.html
Twister First Ever To Strike Borough
(CBS) NEW YORK What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.
[snip]
Not only is the tornado the first ever in recorded history to touch down in Brooklyn, it's also the first to hit a New York City borough since 1995, when a twister struck Staten Island.
Outside of those two, there have been only two other tornadoes to strike New York City. The first touched down in Queens in 1985 and the second in Staten Island in 1990.
Stay with CBS 2 and WCBSTV.com for the latest information.
http://wcbstv.com/to..._220172727.html
Actually, there was a tornado in 2003 on Staten Island, and today's tornado now makes 6, not 4, in NYC. See this NYC Tornado Page.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:02 PM
What's very interesting is that, for all the flak New England gets for 'not having tornadoes,' this is the seventh time since 1950 that significant tornadoes (EF2+) have struck somewhere in the NWS Upton CWA (the smallest, but most populous, in the country) at least twice in two consecutive years. (1950-51, 1955-56, 1970-71, 1973-74, 1988-89-90, 2006-07). And how many people here have weather radios?? :rolleyes: :thumbsdown: Hopefully this myth will be put to bed with this event.
Had this happened just 30-60 minutes later, I'm convinced there would've been fatalities.
Had this happened just 30-60 minutes later, I'm convinced there would've been fatalities.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:16 PM
ChaseS08, on Aug 8 2007, 06:09 PM, said:
I'm watching CBS2's news. How can the City blame the NWS. They said they didn't get any warning that this was coming. That's a terrible excuse.
They did get the warning out just unless you were watching the weather channel it wasn't continuously being disseminated. The problem is that in this part of the country we dont have siren's for severe weather.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:18 PM
bklnwx1, on Aug 8 2007, 05:56 PM, said:
Missed it.....
A lifelong Brooklyn resident, & I'm 600 miles away in eastern North Carolina...
Oh well, I was out of town in Florida during PD2 in Feb 2003.
A lifelong Brooklyn resident, & I'm 600 miles away in eastern North Carolina...
Oh well, I was out of town in Florida during PD2 in Feb 2003.
ouch
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:21 PM
Windsurfer_NYC, on Aug 8 2007, 05:53 PM, said:
Actually, there was a tornado in 2003 on Staten Island, and today's tornado now makes 6, not 4, in NYC. See this NYC Tornado Page.
that one was about three blocks from where I live now.
In 1998 we had wind damage in the same area from a small tornado or straight line winds.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:25 PM
I'm such an idiot.
Weather radio alarm went off at around 5:00am when the storm was in Morris County...went outside at around 5:45 when lightning got brighter...watched for first 15 minutes, gust front passed and without looking at radar assumed the meat of the storm to have gone by...went back to bed. Slept till 10am. Spend my whole life waiting to experience these types of storms, and when one shows up in my backyard I'm snoring away. I of course was waiting for a derecho, never thought there might be a tornadic supercell instead.
Weather radio alarm went off at around 5:00am when the storm was in Morris County...went outside at around 5:45 when lightning got brighter...watched for first 15 minutes, gust front passed and without looking at radar assumed the meat of the storm to have gone by...went back to bed. Slept till 10am. Spend my whole life waiting to experience these types of storms, and when one shows up in my backyard I'm snoring away. I of course was waiting for a derecho, never thought there might be a tornadic supercell instead.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:31 PM
coriolis30, on Aug 8 2007, 06:25 PM, said:
Thats total bullshit. The NWS office in upton issued a flood statement at around 4am warning that urban and flash flooding is likely due to incoming rain of up to 1.5" per hour. They issued it before it started raining in NYC! Clearly someone fell asleep at the wheel in the MTA and didnt have a weather radio on. Mine was honking as early as 4am when the warnings started to roll out.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:31 PM
coriolis30, on Aug 8 2007, 06:25 PM, said:
Utterly ridiculous that Governor Spitzer suggests building an alternative weather predicting service (for the MTA). The fact of the matter is EVEN IF the MTA knew for sure about the rain in advance there'd be nothing they could do to change anything.... the system simply is not capable of handling 2+" in a short time period.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:32 PM
SEC, on Aug 8 2007, 06:31 PM, said:
Utterly ridiculous that Governor Spitzer suggests building an alternative weather predicting service (for the MTA). The fact of the matter is EVEN IF the MTA knew for sure about the rain in advance there'd be nothing they could do to change anything.... the system simply is not capable of handling 2+" in a short time period.
lmao, let them do it.
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Posted 08 August 2007 - 05:34 PM
SEC, on Aug 8 2007, 06:31 PM, said:
Utterly ridiculous that Governor Spitzer suggests building an alternative weather predicting service (for the MTA). The fact of the matter is EVEN IF the MTA knew for sure about the rain in advance there'd be nothing they could do to change anything.... the system simply is not capable of handling 2+" in a short time period.
When has NYC ever blamed their problems on themselves?
