F2 Tornado Touches Down in Brooklyn, Picks Up Litter

[thebobman]

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NWS: F2 Tornado Confirmed In Brooklyn

Twister First Ever To Strike Borough In Recorded History


(CBS) NEW YORK What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions.

The National Weather Service confirmed that the storm brought with it Brooklyn's first ever tornado since such weather events were recorded. Officials measured it to be an EF2 twister, characterized by winds of anywhere from 111 to 135 miles per hour.

Between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. a string of severe thunderstorms blew through the region, making for an incredible headache for morning commuters. Thousands of New Yorkers found themselves enduring hours of delays in the sweltering heat with subways shut down and vacant taxi cabs hard to come by.

[Liqwid]

my god. every time theres a storm here, in NB, i look for funnel clouds.... cause it always gets really windy.

[stabmyhead]

Discovery Channel has a special on Hurricanes and Superstorms right now actually...

[thebobman]

Originally Posted by stabmyhead

Discovery Channel has a special on Hurricanes and Superstorms right now actually...

its all about the topical fear-mongering, next they'll be running a special from that "Engineering Disasters" series