Saul Trabal
EF4
A tornado warning has been issued for Queens County. Several areas of rotation are within one violent cell going over Nassau County.
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9/16/10 NOW: NY
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Isaac Pato
EF1
Looked like a downburst over Queens, base velocity data showed >90kts inbound at 3500ft.
JoelHamburger
I'd estimate that I experienced 70-80 mph straight line southerly winds here in brooklyn.
Saw 3 trees on my block that were sheared off half way up. The streets are a total mess !
It's possible that some large and weak circulation passed through but I suspect it was a microburst. However there did to be some debris deposited in a spiral pattern. I guess we'll known when the survey comes.
Sadly this was the only severe weather I got to experience this year.
here's a link to some video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfkryGkG6H8&feature=player_embedded
joel
Saw 3 trees on my block that were sheared off half way up. The streets are a total mess !
It's possible that some large and weak circulation passed through but I suspect it was a microburst. However there did to be some debris deposited in a spiral pattern. I guess we'll known when the survey comes.
Sadly this was the only severe weather I got to experience this year.
here's a link to some video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfkryGkG6H8&feature=player_embedded
joel
Dave Kaplow
EF4
The supercell that reportedly dropped a tornado on the NYC area gusted out into a beautifully curved/spiral bow echo that arced out into Long Island Sound, with the north end of the bow forming a perfect spiral essentially centered right on New Haven. The area of tight rotation seems to have kept it's organization the whole time, with a very pretty tight couplet evident on radar. I managed to be right at the apex of the Q Bridge over New Haven Harbor when the lowered area of rotation came through shortly after 7:00 pm. There was a special marine warning for a waterspout at the time - this was why I went out on the bridge - so essentially this was a T-warned storm. There was barely enough light left to provide minimal contrast of the lowering, but the lights of the city made up for this and I had a spectacular view... Easily one of the best things I've ever seen on a local chase... There was a smooth laminar curving collar-type cloud above a large mean-looking wall cloud, all this being fed by several ragged black inflow tails, with what certainly looked like a big fat funnel directly underneath it all. There wasn't quite enough light for me to confirm the "funnel" was rotating, but I suspect it had to have been given the incredible structure I observed. Wish I had a picture, this was really impressive stuff. Eventually the whole lowered area began to lose it's organization just as it came ashore in East Haven, which was probably just as well as this is a very highly populated area. While it lasted, though, it was an amazing sight, one that I'm not likely to forget ever. One of these days I gotta start carrying a camera... I must be about the only chaser left that doesn't bother with the photographic aspect.
