F2 Tornado Hits Brooklyn

[Crimson Sky]

and it touched down Wednesday at 6:30 am about a block from me, having traveled about 15 city blocks at 135 MPH. My wife Jean went out and took these pics in the hood. Insane, the first one on record for this city.

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/tornado/52nd_St_off_8th_Ave_Brookly.jpg

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/tornado/53rd_St_between_8th_and_9th.jpg

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/tornado/8th_Ave_at_52nd_Brooklyn.jpg

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/tornado/Maimonides_tower_2_080807.jpg

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http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/tornado/PICT0028.jpg

Pics by my friend Lou:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c14/lousroom/Aug08_0005.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c14/lousroom/Aug08_0003.jpg

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c14/lousroom/Aug08_0001.jpg

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[Spawn-Inc]

WOW! are you guys ok? any of your stuff get damaged? hope no one got hurt.

[AJ@PR]

Jesus frickin' Christ!
:o
Wow!

Amazing pictures... how the hell did a tornado form in the city???
Those pics remind me of hurrican season...

Thanks for sharing! :)

[Crimson Sky]

Yeah we were spared by one block, and the truck wasnt parked under a tree...The air was so thick with hot air and with rain, making the perfect conditions--barometric pressures went extremely high, then dropped suddenly. It was crazy!

From New York Times:

It took experts until late in the afternoon yesterday to confirm what many in southwestern Brooklyn knew had descended on their neighborhoods as a new workday dawned. It was a tornado — the first to hit Brooklyn since modern record-keeping began — and it turned whole sections of Sunset Park and Bay Ridge upside down.

The National Weather Service declared the storm a Category 2 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, with winds from 111 to 135 miles an hour. It was the first tornado recorded in Brooklyn since record-keeping began in 1950, said Jeffrey M. Warner, a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University, and only the sixth recorded in New York City since 1950 and the first since a weak one touched down on Staten Island in 2003.

Roofs were torn off houses. More than 30 families were forced from their homes. Tall trees as thick as men were yanked out by the roots. No one was seriously injured, but cars were turned sideways, awnings and aluminum siding shredded, and countless windows and windshields shattered, in a destructive rain of brick and branch and water that concentrated much of its wrath on 58th Street in Sunset Park.

[SgtM]

Wow! Glad to hear that you're ok.

[simon275]

That insane having a tornado in a city. When ever I think of tornado's I imagine them ripping up corn fields.

Must be pretty rare to get tornado's in those parts as aren't they do to with warm moist hair from the gulf of Mexico hitting cold dry air from Canada?

[DaveW]

A few years ago a BBC weatherman said "sunny weather in the south!"

Then people started phoning in saying there was a storm, probably a hurricane.
He went back on air saying that this was impossible, hurricane's couldn't form from that, and these rumours were being made by troublemakers; don't worry, there's definately no storm, and no hurricane.

The hurricane did millions of pounds of damage, and a lot of people got hurt. He was subsequently fired. It frequently pops up in the top ten of "TV's 100 biggest mistake" type TV shows.

-Dave

[nil8]

Raw. Welcome to every spring where I live. ;)

Still, a tornado in NYC? Crazy.

[Eclecticos]

Wow! Glad to hear that you're ok.

Yea No. Kiddin!
I didn't know ya'll even had tornadoes up there.

[b4i7]

...jeez... it seems like pics of tornado damage doesnt really affect me anymore

glad you were safe crimson...

[progbuddy]

Wow. That's really odd.

Chock one up on the board for global warming.

Just thank god it wasn't any stronger than an F2. NC has had a few (and the majority of hurricanes :\) tornadoes.

[Redundant]

Glad you're ok. :up:

So it's final then: Global Warming is screwing everything up.

[Computer-Geek]

When I seen that damage on the news i knew it had to be a tornado. The damage looks really bad but i'm glad you're ok :D

[progbuddy]

Speaking of which, a tornado just struck near Goldsboro, North Carolina. Also, there is a tornado cell headed straight for our area x.x

[.jrauck]

Heh, it didn't do any damage where im at(Fort Hamilton) but it sure was windy and rainy. My dang dog kept waking me up because he was scarred. I didn't think too much of it since im from texas and it rains a hell of a lot.

[Mitternacht]

We just had a bad storm here in Pittsburgh during this past week. Some witnesses in the Science Center confirmed a funnel cloud coming up and emerging out of the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh.

Link (http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20070810_ap_weatherservicetornadohitpittsburghswes tend.html)