Tornado Hits New York (UPDATE)

UPDATE: It's official: The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado blew through New York on Sunday.

Workers from the New York City Office of Emergency Management and a team from the NWS surveyed the damage in the Riverdale section of the Bronx earlier today and declared that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado.

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NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands of homes on Long Island and in the Bronx are without power after a fierce storm ripped through the area.

The National Weather Service says the storm touched down in the Bronx at around 3 p.m. Sunday and swept east through Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Work crews were removing dozens of felled trees Sunday night. The Long Island Power Authority said 12,168 of its customers were without power, and Con Edison said 2,293 households in the Bronx were without power.

A sailor fell overboard on the Long Island Sound during the storm and was missing Sunday night.

The storm caused a two-and-a-half-hour rain delay at the Yankees game. The Yankees went on to beat the Kansas City Royals 12-6.

 

Comments

[bettyx1138]

09:18 AM on 07/27/2010

what? i was in manhattan all day and never would have thought. silly.

[hilaritee]

12:24 AM on 07/27/2010

how foolish of me to think that this "new york" article would also mention the three tornadoes that touched down this weekend in chautauqua county in western new york.

[BlackYowe]

01:45 AM on 07/27/2010

I hear ya, I live near Mayville. What happens here never registers nationally. The only place that matters in NY is east of Albany as per usual. Here is the cleanup effort here in the place Huffington forgot:
http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/Mayville-Tornado-Aftermath-99272484.html

[Loop Dloop]

09:09 PM on 07/26/2010

I was in a plane having to abort a landing at La Guardia due to micro bursts, it was very scary !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZev_0J_Nag

[PartOfTheSolution]

09:07 PM on 07/26/2010

If there were a God, this tornado would have blown Wall Street to kingdom come.

[angryliberal]

11:19 PM on 07/26/2010

Yeah, but there's not, so it didn't.

[Ron Marriott]

07:41 PM on 07/26/2010

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[Ron Marriott]

07:26 PM on 07/26/2010

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[Ron Marriott]

06:51 PM on 07/26/2010

My daughter and 2 children and dog were in a 25 ft. center consol fishing boat sunday when the storm blew over them. They had 10ft visability and 6 ft seas. The storm scared them very much and forced them to seek rescue from a 60footer near by to get the kids off the boat. The captain had trouble with the ruff seas and trying to get the boats close enough for a rescue was impossible. They stuck it out riding behind the larger boat until things calmed down. What a fast mover!!

[negogato]

07:54 PM on 07/26/2010

I am very happy the kids are ok.

[one1byke]

06:12 PM on 07/26/2010

Now. It's official. My Bro D8 told me.

[CammyV]

04:36 PM on 07/26/2010

Tornados. Not just for Kansas anymore. (climate change much?)

[Ron Marriott]

07:12 PM on 07/26/2010

tornados are every where and have been for a long long time.

[Patrick Zaluski]

04:33 PM on 07/26/2010

WOW....I slept through the whole thing...I live in Brooklyn, did anyone see how bad it was there during the storm? I didnt see any outside damage in the park.....

[pep1]

07:36 PM on 07/26/2010

i am in bklyn as well... the storm was in the kingsbridge/riverdale section of BX

[nappyman]

03:31 PM on 07/26/2010

Who wrote this? Directly after the sentence about a sailor going missing they go on to describe the yankee game? Seems like poor writing to me. Put a little space between tragedy and a mild nuiscance. Maybe give a personal story about some property damage.

[aldouswarp]

03:14 PM on 07/26/2010

Just a comment, when you put a headline on an article, shouldn't there be some text in the article actually relating to what is in the headline?

[PORK RIND]

03:09 PM on 07/26/2010

I personally, with my own two eyes, saw a cloud funnel touching down yesterday around 2:50 in Elmhurst, Queens. If it was not a tornado, then Donald Rumsfeld is not a war criminal.

[dcoverley]

06:11 PM on 07/26/2010

Well then, you did see a tornado!

[PORK RIND]

09:47 PM on 07/26/2010

I think so :-))

[negogato]

07:59 PM on 07/26/2010

That is Hilarious. Very fanned.

[mc52]

12:45 PM on 07/26/2010

I live on Fieldston Road in Riverdale, just a bit north of the area shown in the video. When the storm hit yesterday at around 3:00 pm, I was in my home office on the third floor of our house. When I looked out the window, the wind/rain was blowing around very rapidly in swirls; I remember thinking that it was like looking in a washing machine.

Then the storm very rapidly subsided, in just a few minutes. I can believe that it was a tornado, especially the way the trees were broken off part way up their trunks. We had a major windstorm here earlier this year and many trees were blown over, including a 16 inch diameter, 60 foot tree right next to our house! However, in those cases, all of the trees that I saw were blown over and pulled up by their roots. The trunks were not broken, like the ones in the video here.

I think there is a good chance that this was a tornado. It will be interesting to see just what its path was through the Bronx.

[northbronx]

12:23 PM on 07/26/2010

I think there was some rotation in this storm as it passed over my neighborhood (northeast Bronx). Certainly the winds appeared to be coming from the southeast, counter to the direction the storm was moving, and they were blowing at a high velocity, I would say over 50mph. In I would guess about 5 minutes, we went from dry to flooding out a storm drain, too. Pretty dramatic stuff!