EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn!

[TexasStooge]

The weather pattern is definitely WAY outta control!!!

[Category 5]

I had to read the thread title a few times to see if I read it correctly

[SamSagnella]

In case anyone has missed this, the local WFO has since said that there were apparently two separate tornadoes in NYC that morning. The first one damaged the Randall Manor section of Staten Island, and dissipated, while a second tornado formed and affected the Thomkinsville area before proceeding into Brooklyn.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...REVISED
TORNADO DAMAGE SURVEY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
232 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2007

...NEW YORK CITY TORNADO ON AUGUST 8TH...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS ALONG WITH NEW YORK CITY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS CONFIRMED THAT SEVERAL TORNADO
TOUCHDOWNS OCCURRED ALONG AN APPROXIMATE 9 MILE PATH FROM STATEN
ISLAND TO BROOKLYN IN THE EARLY MORNING OF AUGUST 8TH.

THE FIRST TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS IN STATEN ISLAND AT APPROXIMATELY
6:22 AM IN THE VICINITY OF ST. AUSTINS PLACE IN THE LIVINGSTON -
RANDALL MANOR AREA. THE TORNADO MOVED EAST...WITH ADDITIONAL DAMAGE
OCCURRING IN THE TOMPKINSVILLE AREA. MOST OF THE DAMAGE IN STATEN
ISLAND WAS TO TREES...AND ESTIMATED AT EF-1 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA
SCALE...WITH WINDS OF 86 TO 100 MPH.

BASED ON RE-ANALYSIS OF RADAR DATA, THE STATEN ISLAND TORNADO
APPARENTLY DISSIPATED AS A SECOND CIRCULATION DEVELOPED JUST NORTH
OF THE FIRST CIRCULATION. THE DAMAGE IN TOMPKINSVILLE MAY BE A
RESULT OF THIS SECOND CIRCULATION.

THIS CIRCULATION INTENSIFIED AS IT MOVED EAST ACROSS THE VERRAZANO
NARROWS. THE TORNADO RE-DEVELOPED BY THE TIME THE CIRCULATION MOVED
ON SHORE IN BROOKLYN. DAMAGE IN THE FORM OF FALLEN TREES AND
STRUCTURAL ROOF DAMAGE OCCURRED IN BAY RIDGE STARTING IN THE AREA
FROM SHORE ROAD BETWEEN 71ST AND 78TH EASTWARD TO BAY RIDGE BLVD.
THIS OCCURRED AT APPROXIMATELY 6:32 AM. THE TORNADO MAY HAVE BRIEFLY
LIFTED AND THEN TOUCHED DOWN AGAIN 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 IN BAY RIDGE...THIS TORNADIC DAMAGE IS
CLASSIFIED AS EF-2 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.

THE TORNADO THEN HEADED EAST...AND TOUCHED DOWN AT LEAST THE FOURTH
BUT FINAL TIME IN KENSINGTON JUST EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF CHURCH
AVENUE AND BEVERLY ROAD AT APPROXIMATELY 6:40 AM. NUMEROUS
TREES...APPROXIMATELY 30...WERE UPROOTED ALONG OCEAN PARKWAY AS THE
TORNADO MOVED EAST. THE TORNADO PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO TREES
AND STRUCTURES IN THE AREA WITH EAST 8TH AND 7TH STREETS BEING HIT
HARD. DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AS FAR EAST AS ARGYLE ROAD. THE TORNADO
WAS ON THE GROUND FOR APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE IN THIS AREA BEFORE IT
LIFTED.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS ALONG WITH METEOROLOGISTS
FROM THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK CONTINUE TO
ANALYZE DATA FROM THIS HISTORIC METEOROLOGICAL EVENT.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAD ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR
PORTIONS OF STATEN ISLAND AND BROOKLYN AT 6:28 AM. A SECOND TORNADO
WARNING WAS ISSUED AT 6:50 AM FOR SECTIONS OF
BROOKLYN...QUEENS...AND NASSAU COUNTY.

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TONGUE/CRISTANTELLO

[Stephanie]

Thanks Sam for passing this along.

I STILL can't even imagine it happening. I'm surprised that there wasn't a flurry of accidents on the Verazzano.