Brooklyn Tornado of 2010
[nggallery id=”48697″ template=galleryview] Well, that was pretty crazy. (Or as the videographer in the second video on the jump said, “Holy Shit!”) It only lasted a few minutes, but sometime around 5:30 p.m. yesterday a small tornado touched down in Brownstone Brooklyn, wreaking havoc on many trees, cars and houses and leaving other spots virtually…
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Well, that was pretty crazy. (Or as the videographer in the second video on the jump said, “Holy Shit!”) It only lasted a few minutes, but sometime around 5:30 p.m. yesterday a small tornado touched down in Brownstone Brooklyn, wreaking havoc on many trees, cars and houses and leaving other spots virtually untouched. We took a walk around Clinton Hill in the aftermath and have included a lot of the photos we took along with a bunch sent in by readers. Thanks so much to everyone for sending them in.
L.I.R.R. Works to Restore Most Commuter Service [NY Times]
Killer Storm Batters New York [NY Post]
Powerful Storm Causes Damage in Minutes [NY Daily News]
Brooklynites Band Together After Storm [NY Daily News]
Apparently the entire facade of a brownstone up around 7th and 7th was torn off. Along with the facade of a laundromat at 13th and 4th (NYT has a picture of the latter here: http://bk.ly/t1N)
Could anything but a tornado do that?
I missed it. When got off the train and walked on Smith st. everything looked normal enough. Some leaves off some trees but that is about it. But these pics from Park Slope which only few blocks away are another story. They say tornados head to trailer parks. So is that why hit park slope?
Our block and our neighbors were on channel 4 last night because the the two trees which split right down the middle (third photo). The news said that lightning had struck them both. It must have been a tornado. I came home after the storm, I was at someone’s house nearby, and when I turned on my block, I was thinking, not bad, just some smaller branches. My side of the street was more or less fine. I was standing on my stoop putting my keys in the lock and I heard noise from across the street. I turned and looked, and those trees were there, split like from an enormous ax. Only a tornado can hit and miss that this one did, seems like a fast moving storm would mow everything in its path across a wider swath.
This video seems to show clouds/wind rotating right above the guys filming, not a funnel cloud but something like a pinwheel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCE_qiy-sOQ
Yeah, mopar, I thought the tree chair picture was great too
Snappy, what are those cops doing there? Are they interviewing the tree to get its side of the story?
Love the photo of the plastic chair in the tree. LOL.
That first video confirms nothing other than a fast moving storm, which doesn’t mean there was a tornado.
Those first two picks came from near the red hook track; there was about 6 trees down and another 30 or so big branches. I was running and lucky enough to take cover in a garage nearby.
That trolley in the 2nd picture weighed about 80lbs. Not sure where it came from, but ended up smack in the middle of the road.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/
Morning, Dave.
ishtar, it apparently takes the National Weather Service 2-3 days to officially confirm it was a tornado, but I agree with what Dave just said about the video.