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The Weather 2010 New York Tornado: The Video
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:26 PM
This is some pretty clear footage, and I say that as an expert on internet tornado footage (send me an e-mail if you need consultation or anything).
And it's not even from 34 years ago!
h/t: Time and Tone
UPDATE: Here is the second part, from inside the cameraman's apartment. Thanks to Peter F.!
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I work at LIU and that video doesn't begin to capture how quickly the sky went black and glowy green. Tree were ripped out of the ground like they were twigs.
4
When I was home one weekend from college in the mid-late 80s, a tornado whipped up just down the street from me in central MA once, with that same eerie, green sky effect. It only touched down in a couple of spots, but it tore through an old (for New England) forest I used to walk in as a kid, twisting off trees mid-trunk and tossing them around like matchsticks.
Another twister near-missed the Cincinnati neighborhood my parents were living in fifteen years ago or so, and walking around that area, seeing the personal effects of various Ohioans strewn from trees and telephone poles was awesome and disturbing.
Another twister near-missed the Cincinnati neighborhood my parents were living in fifteen years ago or so, and walking around that area, seeing the personal effects of various Ohioans strewn from trees and telephone poles was awesome and disturbing.
5
I'm skeptical it was a tornado. A supercell can produce a powerful microburst that will behave like that: a sudden fast-moving wall of rain and damaging winds. But tornadoes tend to form at the trailing edge of the supercell.
8
The storm probably cleaned a lot of the garbage off the streets (I'm looking for the silver lining here).
14
Pffft - I'm from Illinois - WeI wouldn't even go into the basement for this. (Though I rarely ever actually do take shelter).
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The amazing thing about the second video is how quickly the storm stopped. Tornado or not, that storm was pretty localized.
22
Clearly, New Yorkers are too dumbass to know what to do in tornados. Standing there at the window videoing it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
I lived in the midwest as a kid. We had tornado warnings that sounded when one was imminent. We all hid in the basement until the all-clear signal.
A real tornado could have snatched that window he was standing behind right out of its frame. With luck, he might not have been sliced to shreds in the process. With more luck he wouldn't have been yanked out of his apartment/condo and dropped 50 feet to the street.
I lived in the midwest as a kid. We had tornado warnings that sounded when one was imminent. We all hid in the basement until the all-clear signal.
A real tornado could have snatched that window he was standing behind right out of its frame. With luck, he might not have been sliced to shreds in the process. With more luck he wouldn't have been yanked out of his apartment/condo and dropped 50 feet to the street.
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Am I the only one who doesn't see this as a big deal? Looks like typical Pacific NW weather to me...only in NYC.
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@5/10/11/18 - the link actually calls it a "tornado-like storm." Hard to see just how tornado-like it was from this video.
@22 - I wonder if they have tornado sirens, tornado shelters, etc. in NYC.
@23 - oh, stop hating America.
@22 - I wonder if they have tornado sirens, tornado shelters, etc. in NYC.
@23 - oh, stop hating America.
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Things going against that being a tornado:
1. It's on the leading edge of the storm, in the rain core. Tornadoes form from the mesocyclone which occurs in the updraft, or rain-free base.
2. There is no obvious rotation to be seen anywhere in either video.
3. Looking at the NEXRAD radar, there are no velocity couplets in the storm of any significance, and none that persist through the scan heights.
4. And for whoever said 4,5, and 11 know more than the National Weather Service, you need to check with the NWS and SPC. They don't have a tornado anywhere near NY nor NJ in their reports.
Check here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/10…
1. It's on the leading edge of the storm, in the rain core. Tornadoes form from the mesocyclone which occurs in the updraft, or rain-free base.
2. There is no obvious rotation to be seen anywhere in either video.
3. Looking at the NEXRAD radar, there are no velocity couplets in the storm of any significance, and none that persist through the scan heights.
4. And for whoever said 4,5, and 11 know more than the National Weather Service, you need to check with the NWS and SPC. They don't have a tornado anywhere near NY nor NJ in their reports.
Check here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/10…
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Things going against that being a tornado:
1. It's on the leading edge of the storm, in the rain core. Tornadoes form from the mesocyclone which occurs in the updraft, or rain-free base.
2. There is no obvious rotation to be seen anywhere in either video.
3. Looking at the NEXRAD radar, there are no velocity couplets in the storm of any significance, and none that persist through the scan heights.
4. And for whoever said 4,5, and 11 know more than the National Weather Service, you need to check with the NWS and SPC. They don't have a tornado anywhere near NY nor NJ in their reports.
Check here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/10…
1. It's on the leading edge of the storm, in the rain core. Tornadoes form from the mesocyclone which occurs in the updraft, or rain-free base.
2. There is no obvious rotation to be seen anywhere in either video.
3. Looking at the NEXRAD radar, there are no velocity couplets in the storm of any significance, and none that persist through the scan heights.
4. And for whoever said 4,5, and 11 know more than the National Weather Service, you need to check with the NWS and SPC. They don't have a tornado anywhere near NY nor NJ in their reports.
Check here: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/10…
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That was super localized to Brooklyn and Queens. I live on the S side of Prospect Park and we got hammered, the door was sucked off the subway station. N side of the park, Park Slope, got destroyed, trees, root balls and all, ripped out of the sidewalk planters.
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Clearly this guy did not grow up in the midwest (as nearly everyone else in Brooklyn). You do not stand next to your window to video the tornado!!! You sit in a souped up RV with Bill Paxton. Duh.
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Sorry folks, that is NOT a tornado, hellish straight line winds, but no tornado. I have watched several videos from yesterday and not one shows a tornado, although y'all seem to use that word quite loosely. I watch tornado videos on line and have seen close to 50 with my own eyes, but I would NEVER claim to be an expert, and you my friend are not one either. Here is your storm reports from yesterday, and yes that is the SPC, as in STORM PREDICTION CENTER.. the red dots are tornadoes, the blue dots are straight line winds http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/ye… if you will notice, there are NO red dots in the New York area and that is coming from the EXPERTS.. and hey enough wise cracks about Twister.. :p~ wanna learn about tornadoes, tune in to The Core Show http://wxdallas.com/core.html learn about it from the mouths of die hard storm chaser.
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Agree with those who say not a tornado. I've been in tornadoes, and this just ain't one. Definitely a badass windstorm, though. This storm happens in the midwest, nobody even gets up from their coffee. It's just news because it happened in Brooklyn. Super fun to watch, though!
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these comments are stupid. having grown up in the midwest and south and living in brooklyn (yes i was here for it, my wife and kid were IN it) — these are just stupid comments for the most part. i'm very non-plussed today as it is but seriously could we all try to be a little more interesting?
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The National Weather Service now says that not one, but two tornados hit. I guess that shows you how much all the fucking "know-it-alls" really know.
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Just for the record, the National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes touched down in NYC, an EF-0 in Brooklyn and an EF-1 in Queens, with a large area damaged by microbursts in Queens as well.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?sectio…
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?sectio…
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Number 38, the tornado confirmations were based on damage paths, NOT ONE PERSON has posted any convincing video of a tornado in New York from yesterday .. Especially NOT this one... I hate to break it to you yet AGAIN but this video IS NOT a tornado, this video shows straight line winds... However, I stand by my statement, this video shows straight line winds NOT a tornado, so get over your special little self.
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Oh, c'mon people! The point is not whether or not this was a tornado, it's that a uniquely powerful storm hit a densely populated area that rarely gets extreme weather like this. And for those of you making fun of him for being by the window: He's in an apartment in Brooklyn. He doesn't have a basement. Yes, he would have been smart to go to a bathroom or something, but if his apartment is like the majority of NYC apartments, he probably didn't have a particularly safe place to go. So he decided to take a chance and film it instead. Which is why we have awesome footage of it. So get over yourselves.
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