Tornado Warning - NYC area!!!

[tomboudreau]

http://www.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=tornado%20warning

Last update: 08.25.06 - Fri - 10:55:02 AM (EDT)
Tornado Warning for the United States
TORNADO WARNING
NJC003-NYC005-061-251515-
/O.NEW.KOKX.TO.W.0003.060825T1440Z-060825T1515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
1040 AM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN NEW YORK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
SOUTHWESTERN BRONX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
BERGEN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY...

* UNTIL 1115 AM EDT...

* AT 1038 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MORNINGSIDE
HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT NEAR RIDGEFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
HARLEM AND MOTT HAVEN BY 1045 AM.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
PENNY SIZED HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4112 7421 4100 7390 4086 7395 4084 7384
4081 7387 4081 7387 4082 7397 4080 7399
4083 7404 4077 7409 4077 7414 4086 7410
4096 7414 4100 7426

[conestogo_flood]

Any reports of tornadoes? Any Storm2k members out there watch the coverage?

[CrazyC83]

Any reports of tornadoes? Any Storm2k members out there watch the coverage?

The warning was quickly cancelled.

[tomboudreau]

Confirmed tornado in Nassau county this evening...

0034 2 E MASSAPEQUA NASSAU NY 4067 7343 AN F0 TORNADO WAS CONFIRMED IN EAST MASSAPEQUA AND AMITYVILLE. (OKX)

Source: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html

[SamSagnella]

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
833 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...WEAK TORNADO OVER SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITIES...

NWS INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THAT AN F0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN
SEVERAL LOCATIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NASSAU COUNTY IN EAST
MASSAPEQUA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY IN AMITYVILLE
BETWEEN 12 AND 1215 THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON. WINDS IN A F0 TORNADO
ARE UP TO 72 MPH.

THE TORNADO/S PATH WAS ONLY ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF A MILE LONG AND
AROUND 150 YARDS AT IT WIDEST PART IN MASSAPEQUA. PREDOMINANTLY TREE
DAMAGE COVERED THIS AREA OF THE SOUTH SHORE. ROTATION WAS EVIDENT IN
THE TOPS OF MANY OF THE TREES AND TORNADIC DAMAGE CAME VERY CLOSE TO
THE GROUND IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS. THE MOST DAMAGE OCCURRED FROM
AROUND CLOCKS BOULEVARD THEN MOVED SOUTHEAST ACROSS MELROSE AVENUE
ACROSS COUNTY LINE ROAD INTO AMITYVILLE/S OLD FIELDS AND HOMESTEAD
AVENUES. IT SEEMED TO LIFT BACK INTO THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM CLOUD
BY THE TIME THE STORM MOVED OVER KETCHAM AVENUE.

THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM ITSELF WAS SEVERE AS WELL. WINDS WERE
ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 70 MPH. HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WAS ALSO
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. VERY HEAVY RAIN ALSO OCCURRED WITH THIS
STORM CAUSING FLOODING OVER MANY SECTIONS OF NASSAU COUNTY AS WELL
AS SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS IN EFFECT WHEN THIS STORM HIT THE
AFFECTED AREA.