Nasty Storms in NYC area, possible tornado touchdown

[Smash255]

A real nasty line of storms came through the NYC metro area.  Tornado Warnings were up in parts of Jersey, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens.  Trees down pretty much all over the city, especially Queens and Brooklyn.  Lunar's Park Slope was hit extremely hard.  Queens was basically a complete mess.  A woman was killed on the Grand Central Parkway when a tree crashed into her car, massive trees down all over.  Traffic was backed up for hours and hours as main roads and side roads had nothing but trees down.  LIRR railroad service between Penn Station and Jamaica was suspended, the Port Washington Branch was completely shut down.  Anyone trying to get to the Met game had basically no way of getting there.  The announced crowd was about 28,000 (tickets sold) though about it was likely well under 5,000, and it the hundreds at the start of the game.

Weakened a bit as it hit Long Island near me, but still torrential downpours, very vivid lightning, just an extremely nasty storm.

[Lunar]

Lunar's Park Slope was hit extremely hard.

I KNOW.  OMFG, store fronts torn off, whole streets where every single tree was chopped up, sidewalks torn up:




my roommate was making a tent on the roof of our building when the thing hit, I'm not sure why, but the tent is gone now, to say the least

[ej2mm15]

Yeah, there are trees everywhere. My school was cancled.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Hope that's not your Mitsubishi in that pic, Lunar.  Damn.

[Lunar]

Hope that's not your Mitsubishi

Who do you think I am? 

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Hope that's not your Mitsubishi

Who do you think I am? 

Oh, yeah, you're a poor........sorry, Bro.

[Lunar]

[Smash255]

Two tornadoes touched down.  One in Park Slope Brooklyn another around Flushing and Bayside Queens.  A macroburst in Forrest Hills Queens.

[patrick1]

Lunar brings death and destruction wherever he goes.   

Thank God I got out in time.  Being stuck in Penn Station for an hour is a nightmare, 6 hours or whatever is jump on third rail time.
 

[memphis]

Considering New York City's density, it sounds like you guys got off pretty easy. A tornado could have ripped apart one of those mega-huge residential towers you guys are so fond of.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCE_qiy-sOQ

[Smash255]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsiJ3z3WbhM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-i2mim_7k

[??????????]

They say it was a micro burst.

[Lunar]

[muon2]

I happened to watching TWC as the storm moved through. The line and bow echo pattern was more like a midwestern storm than one on the east coast. It was also strange to see the radar over NYC, since this type of storm in the midwest is often disrupted by large, dense urban areas, though we had a similar derecho storm with an EF1 tornado in 2007. The uprooted trees were very similar.

[Lunar]

[Thomas D]

That looks like the ship coming down from Independence Day.

[Lunar]

Bad storms are like that.

[Smash255]

They say it was a micro burst.

Two tornadoes and a macroburst, they originally labeled it a microburst, but corrected it to macroburst because of the length of the damage path.

[Lunar]

http://thedailywh.at/post/1151336474/bros-autotuning-bros-of-the-day-the-brooklyn







Remiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix~!

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Is that real?

[Lunar]

I pulled it straight from the AP story, 100% real

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I pulled it straight from the AP story, 100% real

Link?  I wanna see if I can find a high resolution copy of that.

[Lunar]

I totally have that link bookmarked, but something exciting just happened, so I'll have to get that to you later

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I totally have that link bookmarked, but something exciting just happened, so I'll have to get that to you later

... now you've got me curious about the exciting thing too - lol