Authorities: 2 tornadoes struck NYC during storm

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NEW YORK — All over the city, witnesses compared stories of the destruction they saw — roofs peeled away, street signs uprooted, storefront windows blown out, thick tree trunks snapped in half, a parked van lifted a foot into the air.

So it came as no surprise when meteorologists determined late Friday that the storm that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens a day earlier spawned two tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph.

What was surprising, meteorologists said, was that only one person died.

"It's practically a miracle considering the population that was affected by this," said Kyle Struckmann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

The tornadoes were the ninth and 10th to hit New York City since 1950, according to the weather service.

One struck Brooklyn at 5:33 p.m. Thursday, with winds up to 80 mph, and carved its way northeast from the Park Slope section, Struckmann said. The second hit Queens at 5:42 p.m., with winds up to 100 mph, traveling 4 miles from the Flushing section to a mile north of Bayside. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100917/US.NYC.Storm/

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1. 3 of those 10 have hit in the last 3 years

[blue sky at night]

2. I was driving that night and picked up WCBS...

they were all over the storms and man did they get hammered, really scary how weird the weather is getting now. I feel very sad over all of the trees that were lost, they shaded them in the summer.....BTW, I was driving in a some very intense storm cells down in the Ohio valley driving south of Steubenville, not much fun on a very curvy road in the dark.

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3. We lost even more trees in the March storm.

The landscape has changed here a bit.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. In Kansas, they say "Wow. That's a tornado."

In NYC.... it's, " after careful scrutiny and due deliberation, and in collaboration with the departmentofwhatchamaclallit, pending further results from the thingiofajiggy bureau, we hereby establish that the storm we had last Thursday night has officially been determined... and will continue to be determined... to have been a 'tornado'."

"At this *time*."


Someone on DU posted a pic on Thursday, pm showing the storm in the sky over the Statue of Liberty w. Bklyn and Queens in the backdrop.

It showed a tornado.

[stray cat]

5. In Kansas they usually show a tornado doing the damage

I've seen tornados that were not responsible for straight line wind damage that occurred during the same storm. Tornados are not dangerous if they don't touch ground - I don't know if the picture you sited had the tornado in the air or on the ground. Anyone still have the picture?