7/18/07 DISC: NY

[Andrew Ryan]

There was a confirmed tornado touchdown in Islip, NY around 9:19AM. The strength of the tornado is yet to be determined. About an hour before this happened, I noted to myself that the conditions were ripe for a tornado...and it happened!! (very rare for Long Island)


-andrew

EDIT: The tornado was rated an EF-1 and no serious injuries were reported. Also, no major damage to report (trees down and roofs torn off).

 

[David Dildine]

Yeah so strange... I also went into work this morning at 6AM thinking that today was going to be the day that the NYC area would get a tornado. It's been a while, right? I can recall one picture of a supercell w/ tornado near the Statue of Liberty from the 70s.

How was radar presentation with this event?

 

[Andrew Ryan]

I remember that picture that you are talking about, very spooky! I was actually asleep when the tornado touchdown! I woke up at 8 b/c I heard thunder and rain and immediately checked the radar and nws to see if it was warned (which it hadn't...yet). The actual storm was to my north and look quite impressive (for LI standards) and that's when got the feeling.

I did see part of radar signature but it was very well defined b/c it was part of an mcs. But I actually of pictures of other tornado signatures that happened in the Northeast this year but none of them tornadoed (even though they looked much better on radar!).

-andrew